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'Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of
artificial intelligence.' Bill Gates In How to Create a Mind, Ray
Kurzweil offers a provocative exploration of the most important
project in human-machine civilisation: reverse engineering the
brain to understand precisely how it works and using that knowledge
to create even more intelligent machines. Kurzweil explores how the
brain functions, how the mind emerges from the brain, and the
implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence in
addressing the world's problems. He thoughtfully examines emotional
and moral intelligence and the origins of consciousness and
envisions the radical - arguably inevitable - future of our merging
with the intelligent technology we are creating.
By the end of this decade, AI will exceed human levels of intelligence.
During the 2030s, it will become ‘superintelligent’, vastly
outstripping our capabilities by almost every measure and enabling
dramatic new interventions in our bodies. By 2045, we will be able to
connect our brains directly with AI, enhancing our intelligence a
millionfold and expanding our consciousness in ways we can barely
imagine. This is the Singularity.
Ray Kurzweil is one of the greatest inventors of our time with over 60
years’ experience in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Dozens of
his long-range predictions about the rise of the internet, AI and
bioengineering have been borne out. In this visionary and fundamentally
optimistic book, Kurzweil explains how the Singularity will occur and
explores what it will mean to live free from the limits of biology.
What will we choose if our bodies need no longer define us? What new
realms of beauty, connection and wonder might we inhabit? Who will we
become if our minds can be stored and duplicated? How will we navigate
the risks presented by such awesomely powerful technology?
Drawing on a lifetime’s expertise and marshalling the evidence of
today’s rapidly accelerating advances, Kurzweil presents deeply
reasoned answers to these questions and argues that we can and will
transform life on earth profoundly for the better.
"Startling in scope and bravado." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world." -Los Angeles
Times "Elaborate, smart and persuasive." -The Boston Globe "A
pleasure to read." -The Wall Street Journal One of CBS News's Best
Fall Books of 2005 * Among St Louis Post-Dispatch's Best Nonfiction
Books of 2005 * One of Amazon.com's Best Science Books of 2005 A
radical and optimistic view of the future course of human
development from the bestselling author of How to Create a Mind and
The Singularity is Nearer who Bill Gates calls "the best person I
know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence" For over
three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and
provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In
his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers
would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best.
Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary
process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and
skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly
greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our
creations.
First published in 1958, John von Neumann's classic work The
Computer and the Brain explored the analogies between computing
machines and the living human brain. Von Neumann showed that the
brain operates both digitally and analogically, but also has its
own unique statistical language. And more than fifty years after
its inception the von Neumann architecture - an organizational
framework for computer design - still lies at the heart of today's
machines. In his foreword to this new edition, Ray Kurzweil, a
futurist famous for his own musings on the relationship between
technology and consciousness, places von Neumann's work in a
historical context and shows how it remains relevant today.
Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century--an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live. Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future takes us through the advances that inexorably result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain by the year 2020 (with human-level capabilities not far behind); in relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers; and in information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways. Optimistic and challenging, thought-provoking and engaging, The Age of Spiritual Machines is the ultimate guide on our road into the next century.
The bold futurist and bestselling author of The Singularity is
Nearer explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the
human brain Ray Kurzweil is arguably today's most influential-and
often controversial-futurist. In How to Create a Mind, Kurzweil
presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in
human-machine civilization-reverse engineering the brain to
understand precisely how it works and using that knowledge to
create even more intelligent machines. Kurzweil discusses how the
brain functions, how the mind emerges from the brain, and the
implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence in
addressing the world's problems. He thoughtfully examines emotional
and moral intelligence and the origins of consciousness and
envisions the radical possibilities of our merging with the
intelligent technology we are creating. Certain to be one of the
most widely discussed and debated science books of the year, How to
Create a Mind is sure to take its place alongside Kurzweil's
previous classics which include Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough
to Live Forever and The Age of Spiritual Machines.
"Death and Anti-Death" collects essays by professional philosophers
and scholars on issues related to death, life extension, and
anti-death, broadly construed.
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