The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
by:
Ray Kurzweil (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781101077887 (1101077883)
Publish date: January 1st 2000
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Another brilliant piece of non-fiction, this one looks at where technologies are going and how they are going to change the human condition. I found myself constantly amazed at the speed of development.
As an AI person, I have mixed feelings about this book. Half of me says that it's nonsense: the author come across as ludicrously optimistic, indeed quite out of touch with reality, and saturated with hubris to the point where it's starting to crystallize out in his hair. Who could ever take this cr...