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Read this concurrently with the audiobook for the singularity is near , would definitely recommend both.
I highly recommend reading this book, then follow it up with the sequel titled the singularity is near (an even better book tha... Read More
Ultimately, we invented and developed modern technology to improve the quality of life.
I agree with all of these opinions, with the exception, as i discussed above, of the assumption that eventually machines will a... Read More
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This is really nice and good price
Kurzweil is a tech savant, respected at the highest institutions.
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] if you imagine that intelligence will increase exponentially with time, then it will eventually become a worthy competitor fo... Read More
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- Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 38.
- Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 323 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 27 2021.
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The interplay between the artificial characters animating functional conversations as we ascribe to characters we percieve in real life was well done as adhoc examples of interfacing with artificial personalities or multiple personalities of the same user and other bizarre considerations most of us have yet to think of until we flip through a copy of the age of spiritual machines
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The questions are so dumbed down it takes away from the book
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Without it this topic would probably be quite confusing on first read
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This book has been written in 1999 and some of its first predictions are about to become true in 2006
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Downside with this book is that about the final 3rd is his predictions for the future basically the now since the book was written almost 20 years ago
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He was way off about a lot of things so at that point it becomes less interesting like when you see we are still using mice and keyboards and arent really using voice to text on computers
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I like to paraphrase the movie the imitation game they were merely codebreakers
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Suggest you familiarize yourself with heisenbergs uncertainty principle ie at the quantum level matter only comes into being when something conscious looks at it collapsing from a wave function into particles
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