The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

Ray Kurzweil

Jan 2000 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

The inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and bestselling author of The Singularity is Nearer now offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century in The Age of Spiritual Machines--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.

Ratings and reviews

wow, I read singularity is near and this book goes into detail the Moore's law and law of accelerating returns reflective paradox inversely squaring off like what the who where and when all factored and equated into why for this comment might be remembered adrift in bliss of your reading :) resonate scalar redundance humble or acknowledge the meaning of permeation in closed loop systems schizophrenic general relief gr.AND SSI = about a grand and body.owned. by secret.service is boss sensibly block chain of command. is there an nft for that, possibly?

My question to you is: "WHY"? Why are you all rushing towards singularity? Why do you even want a computer that thinks? Seriously, why?

My first book on the topic of transhumanism. A great introduction.

About the author

Ray Kurzweil is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Singularity Is Near and the national bestseller The Age of Spiritual Machines, among others. One of the leading inventors of our time, he won a Grammy Award for outstanding achievements in music technology in 2015 and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002. He is the recipient of many honors, including the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation's highest honor in technology. He lives in Boston.