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9780140282023

Age of Spiritual Machines : When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

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    9780140282023

  • ISBN10:

    0140282025

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-01-01
  • Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

A Note to the Readerp. V
Acknowledgmentsp. XI
Prologue: An Inexorable Emergencep. 1
Probing the Past
The Law of Time and Chaosp. 9
The Intelligence of Evolutionp. 40
Of Mind and Machinesp. 51
A New form of Intelligence on Earthp. 66
Context and Knowledgep. 89
Preparing the Present
Building New Brains ...p. 101
... and Bodiesp. 133
1999p. 157
To Face the Future
2009p. 189
2019p. 202
2029p. 220
2099p. 234
Epilogue: the Rest of the Universe Revisitedp. 253
Time Linep. 261
How to Build an Intelligent Machine in Three Easy Paradigmsp. 281
Glossaryp. 298
Notesp. 315
Suggested Readingsp. 344
Web Linksp. 369
Indexp. 377
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