Description: 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 Book and Mortar Record Store The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI -- Ray Kurzweil 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. Author: Ray Kurzweil Publisher: Viking Published: 06/25/2024 Pages: 432 Binding Type: Hardcover Weight: 1.10lbs Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d ISBN: 9780399562761 Age Range: 18-UP Review Citation(s): Library Journal 01/01/2024 pg. 13 Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2024 Publishers Weekly 04/08/2024 About the Author Ray Kurzweil is a world class inventor, thinker, and futurist, with a thirty-five-year track record of accurate predictions. He has been a leading developer in artificial intelligence for 61 years - longer than any other living person. He was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, omni-font optical character recognition, print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, text-to-speech synthesizer, music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition software. Ray received a GRAMMY(R) Award for outstanding achievement in music technology; he is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He has written five best-selling books including The Singularity Is Near and How to Create a Mind. He is a Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google.
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Label: Viking
Artist: Kurzweil, Ray
Album: The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
Book Title: Singularity Is Nearer : When We Merge with Ai
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Item Height: 1.4 in
Publication Year: 2024
Topic: Biotechnology, Neuroscience, Life Sciences / Evolution, Intelligence (Ai) & Semantics, Future Studies, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Nanotechnology & Mems, Robotics
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Computers, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Science, Medical
Item Weight: 24.2 Oz
Author: Ray Kurzweil
Item Length: 9.5 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
