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  The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (Paperback) By (author) Ray Kurzweil

  

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  Short Description for The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human IntelligenceThe "ultimate thinking machine" ("Forbes")--whose predictions for the future are startling, provocative, and closer to fruition than one might think--takes a serious and surprising look at the future that reads like great science fiction and offers a framework for envisioning the 21st century. Illustrations & diagrams. (Technology)
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  • Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Published: 27 January 2000
  • Format: Paperback 400 pages
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  • Categories: Science: General Issues | Impact Of Science & Technology On Society | Ethical & Social Aspects Of Computing | Artificial Intelligence
  • ISBN 13: 9780140282023 ISBN 10: 0140282025
  • Sales rank: 64,463

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• 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.