Peter Diamandis | SingularityU Greece Summit 2018

Diamandis is the Founder & Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions. He is also the Executive Founder and Director of Singularity University; a global learning and innovation community using exponential technologies to tackle the
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[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

*Great visionary. He is right,* the trends all point into the direction of more digital, more electric, more accessible, more democratic and more affordable. Education used to be one of the most expensive things. Now we can have almost free education on the Internet.

[@errinwright]

The reverberation of the sound off the huge stadium makes the talk sound even more epic. Back here from seeing CES NEON.

[@tecnoblix]

I really needed this video today. Thank you.

[@Larrythebassman]

Great 👍 simply Brilliant …this is the type of speech that can be listened to DAILY 👏👏👏👏👏👏💥🔥🚀🌐🛸💭

[@iraklitos20022003]

Amazing!!!!

[@Mrpjm200]

amazing presentation - thanks for sharing

[@fajalrahaman9441]

Excellent presentation....Exponential thinking is key to predict future

[@Solidfreeman01]

Great talk! As always!

[@joeblack4436]

If I had the cash for an XPrize it would be put up for an app that can engage children's minds to a love of science and knowledge. You can make all the learning apps in the world, but if kids do not love learning then it won't help much.

[@HussainFahmy]

*A glimpse of the Future.*

[@onewithall7618]

yes yes and yes we are changing on Earth now

[@bntagkas]

i wonder how many people in greece will get to see this...my guess is one, not many judging from views in SU vids, two, its irrelevant, as this christmas i sat down with some pure greek uncle and aunts and shared with them the amazing future that is coming, seeing from SU, elon musk and some others, and the replies were...either why should i care, or why should i believe any of it. i think the majority of people who have as a staple the oldschool TV open all day in the home have their spirits broken and as far as i can see, they are as good as dead - they will either try to stop innovation or at the very least do nothing to help it.

[@singularityu]

We believe it's never too late to embrace technology or the future. We'll continue to create content that educates people of where technology is and where we think it's going. Even if we only reach a tiny percentage of people, it's still an opportunity to ignite change!

[@0rfg3o]

im here ;)

[@d.dhmhtrhs9667]

I am also here. Καλησπερα

[@littlecookingtips]

Damn! When was that, we missed it! Hopefully you got to talk to some local movers and shakers, as there is no pressure for making things easy for entrepreneurs here in Greece. Not from the media neither the political parties. Unending bureaucracy, very high taxation and a high cost of mandatory social security make the opening a new, small business a futile effort in >95% of the cases... It was great that you got to do this here, but we remain pessimistic for things domestically. For instance; did anyone from the government show up? Leaders from political parties? The notion of using Crowdfunding that Peter mentions, would be illegal in Greece; AADE, the Greek IRS has no idea what that is, and one could end up being penalized for using such money if this money is not properly declared (no-one knows how ; and would be HEAVILY taxed) in old-school taxation systems that they use. We'd love to remain optimistic, but the Greek State has a soul-crushing mechanism ready to take you down whenever you look up:)

[@EliProtiva]

An X prize for global terabit fiber internet please

[@Villaintrader12]

Great talk

[@4relevants]

Am I linear, or my paycheck same every 2 - week?

[@nocopyrightmusic-freesound1288]

so wonderful to think positive when you where born in Greece from rich Parents which never had to pay Taxes !!! I invite him to work for BMW or Mercedes Benz in Logistics

[@libertyIsAll132]

he is a wonderful man, taxes are a raub, actually nobody should pay taxes

[@artemaung5274]

I generally get what Peter is saying and all that, but there're caveats. For example say you bought the most powerful mainstream CPU (for regular motherboards) in 1993 which was Pentium 66. Pentium 66 at a time was a monster more than twice the performance of more popular 486 DX2/66. Next year in 1994 the most powerful now Pentium 120 - almost twice the performance! In 1995 - Pentium 200 - again almost double the performance! 1997 - Pentium 2 300 - which was almost 3 times faster in just two years! 1999 - Pentium 3 600 - again almost 3 times more performance in just two years! And then 8 years later in 2001 the most powerful consumer CPU was Pentium 3 1.4 Ghz which is approximately 50(!) times faster than Pentium 66 we started with! But if we look at the more recent timeline 2009 to 2017 and do the same thing - compare the most powerful CPU's for mainstream motherboards - the difference is only 60-70% in 8 years! Compare i7 975 of 2009 to 7700K of 2017 - the difference in performance is only 60-70%! If you don't feel it's a fair comparison - fine, compare i7 960 of 2009 with launch price roughly ~$300 compared to 7700K of 2017 priced ~$330, the difference in performance is still only ~75%. In 8 years! Only in recent years there's bit a bit of a movement with pressure from AMD and it's Ryzen series that made intel introduce 6 core 8700K and then 8 core 9900K. But you can still get away using 5-7-year old CPU for any workload or most gaming setups without sacrificing much of anything. There was no way you could have done the same in 90s. It seems that mobile processors and GPU are still advancing, but for GPU price/performance haven't changed since 2016 despite several new products from AMD and Nvidia. 1060 3Gb was $199 in 2016. In the beginning of 2019 remaining 1060 3Gb units on shelves cost ~$220. We might be in a time of temporal slowdown of technological advances before the new advances can be made and scaled. Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil might have what I would call a combination of expert and optimism biases. They know a lot about progress, but being an experts they tend overestimate impact of new developments that they see like anyone who hangs out with startups a lot of the time. Just look at list of Kursweil predictions and see for yourself. Anything he got wrong was always overly optimistic. For example he predicted that many cars would ubiquitously travel on autopilot on highways in early 2000s using some form of computerized roads. But in fact it only recently started happening without much changes to road infrastructure, rather changes started from within the car itself starting with luxury Tesla Model S in 2016 and to a slightly more affordable Model 3 in 2018. And anyone might have a strong optimism bias once they studied the recent history that brought an insane life improvements. Yet just like in the markets strong previous growth does not mean it will always continue. There's always bumps in the road.

[@JB52520]

The death of Dennard scaling is what really started holding back performance, and it looks like we're nearing the top of the S-curve with Moore's law, since each new node costs exponentially more. However, the failure of the current paradigm creates more research pressure to find the next. Once found, we're back on track for the singularity. Our tools are still getting better and there is always more to discover, which means we'll continue to use those discoveries to improve our tools in the kind of feedback loop that keeps progress exponential. For example, machine learning is improving neuroscience, and neuroscience is improving machine learning. If we can use that knowledge to one day create either machine consciousness or a sufficiently general AI, that's when the feedback loops really go nuts. I'd stay hopeful. If Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil keep saying the world is changing faster than ever, then it's changing faster every time they say it.

[@cmw3737]

X-Prize for an electronic amygdala controller please.

[@cmw3737]

Wow. Just found out how close we are to that. All those technologies mentioned in Peter's presentation are cool but why is he not talking about telepathy and electronic brain stimulation. This is amazing: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b57NXmWFrJWopZY

[@voceahiphop4695]

I love Peter but he's telling people - His friend Ray Kurzweil it's talking about Longevity Escape Velocity. I don t like that , i think that is a tricky way to not give Aubrey De Grey his Pride! The man Deserve that - For all those years of criticism and for the fact that he was the first one to talk about this stuff. I remenber 10 years ago seeing his talk on Ted , People thought he was out of his mind and now Peter is giving Aubrey's Pride to Ray in a Sliky way....Don t like that! My English is not the best but i had to talk about it......He Sayd THEY call that Longevity Escape Velocity - Wht do u talk like this man? Who are they? U mean Aubrey De Grey? That s the stuff i don t like......Much love from Romania!

[@ri8c]

I think he's just trying to make a point, not to diminish De Grey. Both of them have impressive trajectories.

[@voceahiphop4695]

I love Peter Diamandis - I don t think he try to Diminish Aubrey , it s not about that - It s about recognizig Aubrey's work and Mentioning His Name in Stade of Ray's Name..... Aubrey Invented the Term Longevity Esc Velocity long time ago and His name it s not Mentiond , Not Only that But Ray Kurzweil's name it s Mantiond in such a way that make's the people think he came up with the ideea....It s not abot money , Not abot fame , Nothing like that - I think for Aubrey it s about Respect and Legacy.......And i think if a briliant man like Peter talks about Longevity he has to mention Aubrey's name.....That will make him proud and in a sens will give him the feeling that his work finnaly pays off.....Love Singularity University! Love theese people!

[@joeblack4436]

Yeah, but at some point one has to ask whether a full list of verified citations is needed for every bit of information presented in a conversation.

[@GreekScientist]

Exactly the SAME "lecture" he gave a gazillion times. Same slides too. The future may be evolving exponentially but his lectures are stale. And the same goes for Ray "I wanted to be an inventor since I was 5" Kurzweil. I am a Doctor of Medicine and an Engineer and technology expert too, and generally I like Panayiotis (or Peter) Diamandis but this summit in Greece didn't have anything new to add and certainly didn't worth ...1000 euros to attend it. The painful truth is, here in Greece, it is very difficult to thrive as a scientist or an artist or an entrepreneur. Taxes are huge, bureaucracy and governmental procedures are always an obstacle and the Greek people thinks and acts with a mindset from ages ago. That won't change anytime soon.

[@ericalexander2720]

When was this recorded?? He hasn't said anything 'new'. And the first five minutes when he was sucking up to the audience... he mentions education, culture and love like these are attributes that only the 'Greeks' posses.

[@keithyarber2780]

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[@berthavermout4108]

He's a mad scientist! AI is very dangerous and actually, nobody wants it . Why you want a car that drives by itself? It's fun to drive!!!! Why you want a robot that takes over your job? Why you want a robot to clean your house? Cleaning is not much of a burden anyway! It could be even fun. ETC. AI should be stopped~!