Millionaires have become far more common over time, driven by global economic growth, inflation, and wealth creation. In the early 20th century, being a millionaire was extremely rare. Historical Number of Millionaires There were estimated to be only about 20 millionaires in 1840 in the USA and around 4,000-5,000 by 1900. Globally, the figure was …
The 2026 Timeline: AGI Arrival, Safety Concerns, Robotaxi Fleets This podcast episode, hosted by Peter H. Diamandis on the Moonshots Podcast has Salim Ismail (founder of OpenExO), Dave Blundin (founder & GP of Link Ventures), and Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross (computer scientist and founder of Reified). The discussion explores the rapid acceleration toward Artificial General Intelligence …
Elon Musk and Sam Altman hate each other but they agree that super intelligent AI smarter than any human for any task will happen in the next 30 months. This will cause AI, economics, and technology coud completely change over the next few years. The predictions of Elon Musk, Sam Altman are for a changed …
What would the world GDP in the 2040s be if there were 10 billion humanoid robots? Assuming the robots were 4 times as productive as humans. There would also be 3 billion robotaxis and robotrucks making transportation 10 times cheaper and 2-3 times faster for ground transportation. There would be global 6G space communication via …
In 2015, Waitbutwhy.com had some articles and diagrams explaining how the artificial intelligence revolution of a technological singularity would play out. The diagram above shows how there would be a series of improvement rates that would get steeper and steeper and faster and faster. UPDATE – AI spending is huge at $350 billion per year …
Sam Altman talks about AGI products in 2025 and setting OpenAI sights on ASI (Superintelligence). [OpenAI and Sam Altman] are now confident they know how to build AGI as they have traditionally understood it. They believe that, in 2025, the world may see the first AI agents “join the workforce” and materially change the output …
Brian Wang speaks with humanoid bot and AI expert Dr John Gibb about the surprises in a future where teslabots do everything in factories. RethinkX projects a 20 year disruption of the global labor market by humanoid robots. RethinkX projects there will be about one billion humanoid robots by 2045-2055. However, this skips over the …
RethinkX projects a 20 year disruption of the global labor market by humanoid robots. RethinkX projects about one billion humanoid robots by 2045-2055. I, Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture, observed the key starting point of a Technological Singularity that would transform human civilization, Mars and enable the full colonization of the Solar System. I will review …
Stealth Startup, Cognition, backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and former-Twitter executive Elad Gil and Doordash co-founder Tony Xu, announced a fully autonomous AI software engineer called Devin. Devin can handle entire development projects end-to-end. It can write the code, fix bugs associated with it until final execution. This is the first offering of this …
Geordi Rose and Suzanne Gildert at Sanctuary AI are one of the world leading companies working on humanoid robotics and AGI (artificial general intelligence). They have an interesting thought experiment about how much data it would take to generate a human like general intelligence. However, this would be an NPC (non-player character) style general intelligence. …
AI is accelerating computer hardware improvement and software improvement. This was the core of the case for the Technological Singularity. AI is also accelerating the improvement speed of science. AI technology that enables the faster improvement of AI. ChatGPT, CoPilot and other Generative AI improves programming productivity by ten times. Nvidia accelerates Computational Lithography by …