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Ray has written five national bestselling books, including new york times best sellers the singularity is near 2005 and how to create a mind 2012. The singularity is that point in time when all the advances in technology, particularly in artificial intelligence ai, will lead to machines that are smarter than human beings. Feb 22, 2014 ray kurzweil popularised the singularity concept, when artificial intelligence overtakes human thinking. When humans transcend biology is a 2005 nonfiction book about artificial intelligence and the future of humanity by inventor and. Although promoted as science, ray kurzweils writing will appeal to readers of philosophy as well. Ray has written six national bestselling books, including new york times best sellers the singularity is near 2005 and how to create a mind 2012. Nov 15, 2012 ray kurzweil is, by all accounts, a genius. Ray kurzweil is an inventor, thinker, and futurist famous for forecasting the pace of technology and predicting the world of tomorrow. We are the unofficial page but have kurzweil staff as admins. Jan 29, 2017 back in 2007 i was very excited to start reading the singularity is near by ray kurzweil which had been published 2 years earlier in 2005. My interest in the future really stems from my interest in being an inventor. When humans transcend biology ebook written by ray kurzweil. Think blade runner or being john malkovich magnified trillionfold.
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Kurzweil has written seven books, five of which have been national bestsellers. After the opening up of the soviet archives in 1991, detailed information was released that conquest argued supported his. Inventor and futurist ray kurzweil examines the next step in the evolutionary process of the union of human and machine. The singularity is an era in which our intelligence will become increasingly nonbiological and trillions of times more powerful than it is. I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of. Kurzweil is one of the worlds most respected thinkers and entrepreneurs. He is famous for, among other things, predicting the technological singularity.
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