The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have spawned a worldwide movement. Kurzweil's predictions about technological advancements have largely come true, with concepts like AI, intelligent machines, and biotechnology now widely familiar to the public.In this entirely new book Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances toward the Singularity—assessing his 1999 prediction that AI will reach human level intelligence by 2029 and examining the exponential growth of technology—that, in the near future, will expand human intelligence a millionfold and change human life forever. Among the topics he discusses are rebuilding the world, atom by atom with devices like nanobots; radical life extension beyond the current age limit of 120; reinventing intelligence by connecting our brains to the cloud; how exponential technologies are propelling innovation forward in all industries and improving all aspects of our well-being such as declining poverty and violence; and the growth of renewable energy and 3-D printing. He also considers the potential perils of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, including such topics of current controversy as how AI will impact employment and the safety of autonomous cars, and "After Life" technology, which aims to virtually revive deceased individuals through a combination of their data and DNA.The culmination of six decades of research on artificial intelligence, The Singularity Is Nearer is Ray Kurzweil’s crowning contribution to the story of this science and the revolution that is to come. Review: Amazing Book - Great book! Review: Shockingly Amazing Experience - I waited for the publication of this book for over a year. The result is amazing. Ray is a genius when it comes to explaining with logic and simplicity a future unimaginable to many people. He has been often right in his predictions and now reading about such transformations in the next 20 years gives me so much food for thought. I was aware of many technological advancements and theories presented, but what stroked me most is how Ray connects the dots and logically creates the future in which we probably live in. Everybody should be aware of the concepts, developments, and theories within this book. I look forward to dig deeper on these topics.
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 596 Reviews |
S**N
Amazing Book
Great book!
D**O
Shockingly Amazing Experience
I waited for the publication of this book for over a year. The result is amazing. Ray is a genius when it comes to explaining with logic and simplicity a future unimaginable to many people. He has been often right in his predictions and now reading about such transformations in the next 20 years gives me so much food for thought. I was aware of many technological advancements and theories presented, but what stroked me most is how Ray connects the dots and logically creates the future in which we probably live in. Everybody should be aware of the concepts, developments, and theories within this book. I look forward to dig deeper on these topics.
A**N
boken var använd
boken levererades ej i nyskick utan var tydligt att den var använd och hade lånats/lästs av någon annan.
B**D
Meandering, repetitive, very little new material
What a disappointment. The Singularity is Near has a proud place in my book collection, so I was thrilled to see Ray Kurzweil had written a follow-up. In reality, this is more of a reprint of the original with only the first (very short) part feeling like genuinely new material. Moreover, much of the rest of the book is full of meandering waffle that gets incredibly irritating after a while. At some point Ray starts going on about the proliferation of flushing toilets in the 20th century. I kid you not. Just too many tangents like this. At that point I requested a refund. If you haven't read the first book, this may be worth a look still for some of the nice insights into the speed of technological progress. And I like the fact that Ray emphasises how much good progress has happened over the years in eg. crime reduction, which most of the public don't seem to realise (presumably, otherwise they wouldn't be voting for loonies like Trump).
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Parfait.
Parfait !
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Nanobots connecting human brains to the Cloud!
Kurzweil envisions scanning and uploading the human brain to digital substrates, leading to digital consciousness and non-biological evolution. He argues that humanity is rapidly approaching a point—the Singularity—when artificial intelligence will match and then surpass human intelligence, leading to an era of profound transformation. He predicts this will happen by 2045, maintaining the same timeline from his earlier work. His prediction that humans and machines will be more integrated with humans connecting their brains to Cloud (with the help of nanobots), expanding their intelligence, processing power and data storage capacity, is fascinating! I don't know if this is something happening any time soon but he thinks this is not too far in the future. I enjoyed reading this book.
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