The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

By Ray Kurzweil

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About Ray Kurzweil

(born February 12, 1948 in Queens, New York, U.S.) American computer scientist and futurist who popularized the idea that humans would inevitably meld with the technology they developed.

 

In Queens, New York, Kurzweil grew up in a secular Jewish home. He was able to start working as a computer programmer for the Head Start program at age 14 because to his parents' encouragement of his early scientific curiosity. He won the first prize at the International Science Fair in 1965 with a computer software that could create music in the manner of famous composers. The program represented the start of his long-term endeavor to mimic pattern recognition, or the capacity to discover order in large amounts of data. According to Kurzweil, pattern recognition is the foundation of human intelligence. According to Kurzweil, human thought is based on pattern recognition. the chip in a computer. computer. chip in the hand of a computer. computer processor (CPU). Microchip, motherboard of the microprocessor, history and culture, science and technology computer Circuitry Board.

Intro:

The bestselling author of How to Create a Mind and The Singularity is Nearer, whom Bill Gates refers to as "the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence," offers a radical and upbeat vision of how human growth will go in the future.

 

Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most renowned and controversial proponents of the role of technology in our future for more than three decades. He argued that computers would soon rival the whole range of human intelligence at its best in his landmark work The Age of Spiritual Machines. He now looks at the following development in this unstoppable evolutionary process of human and machine union, where the knowledge and abilities stored in our brains will be united with the incredibly powerful machines.

Reviews

In terms of scale and bravery, startling. The New York Times' Janet Maslin

"Artfully imagines a world that is breathtakingly better." — The Los Angeles Times

"Extensive, clever, and convincing." [The Boston Globe]

It was enjoyable to read. Wall Street Journal

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