The first AI only rich people are going to have it. And then they're going to take over the world and they'll be more of the have-nots versus the haves. This is going to create an imbalanced world. You can only afford these technologies at a point where they don't really work very well. Once they get to be perfected, everybody can afford them. There's 6 billion in the world out of 8 billion people. That's crazy. I mean, I walked out and I see homeless people take out their cell phone and use it. The smartphone.
Would you want to live forever? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and author, inventor, and futurist Ray Kurzweil discuss immortality, longevity escape velocity, the singularity, and the future of technology. What will life be like in 10 years?
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