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Age of Spiritual Machines : When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

ISBN: 9780140282023 | 0140282025
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Pub. Date: 1/1/2000

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SummaryTable of Contents
The Age of Spiritual Machines is no mere list of predictions but a prophetic blueprint for the future. Kurzweil guides us through the inexorable advances that will result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain. According to Kurzweil, machines will achieve all this by 2020, with human attributes not far behind. We will begin to have relationships with automated personalities and use them as teachers, companions, and lovers. A mere ten years later, information will be fed straight into our brains a... MORE
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A Note to the Readerp. V
Acknowledgmentsp. XI
Prologue: An Inexorable Emergencep. 1
Probing the Past
The Law of Time and Chaosp. 9
The Intelligence of Evolutionp. 40
Of Mind and Machinesp. 51
A New form of Intelligence on Earthp. 66
Context and Knowledgep. 89
Preparing the Present
Building New Brains ...p. 101
... and Bodiesp. 133
1999p. 157
To Face the Future
2009p. 189
2019p. 202
2029p. 220
2099p. 234
Epilogue: the Rest of the Universe Revisitedp. 253
Time Linep. 261
How to Build an Intelligent Machine in Three Easy Paradigmsp. 281
Glossaryp. 298
Notesp. 315
Suggested Readingsp. 344
Web Linksp. 369
Indexp. 377
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