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The bold futurist and bestselling author of The Singularity is Nearer explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain
Ray Kurzweil is arguably today's most influential-and often controversial-futurist. In How to Create a Mind, Kurzweil presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in human-machine civilization-reverse engineering the…
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How to Create a Mind is a fascinating non-fiction book that explores the intricacies of the human brain and the potential for creating artificial intelligence. It does an excellent job of weaving together scientific research, personal anecdotes, and philosophical musings. Powerful computers are essential to solving human longevity. So, I ask what if those computers need to be partly human themselves? I wish we could simply feed this book into an AI, let it know this is the blueprint to how our human minds work, then set it free to do its best creation. Make us into a human-computer that…
From Spencer's list on survival that even non-sci-fi fans will love.
As we continue to make advancements in artificial intelligence, it’s no doubt that our imagination, fiction and neuroscientific study will heavily influence the field of AI. This book provides fascinating insights into the functioning of the brain and the formation of the mind. Kurzweil explores how we might formulate artificial consciousness. I particularly loved the parts where the author explores how we think (e.g. non-directed and directed) and pattern recognition. While some of the material is a little hard to follow, what remains is a positive and reasonably optimistic vision of how we will live with machines and AI in…
From Minter's list on artificial intelligence, emotions, and empathy.
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