The Age of Intelligent Machines

Name: The Age of Intelligent Machines
ISBN: 9780262111218

by Ray Kurzweil · first published 1990

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What is artificial intelligence? At its essence, it is another way of answering a central question that has been debated by scientists, philosophers, and theologians for thousands of How does the human brain - three pounds of ordinary matter - give rise to thought? With this question in mind, inventor and visionary computer scientist Raymond Kurzweil probes the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence, from its earliest philosophical and mathematical roots through today's moving frontier, to tantalizing glimpses of 21st-century machines with superior intelligence and truly prodigio

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mixmax · Feb 7, 2008 · Recommends

I read Kurzweil's book "the age of intelligent machines" where he set quite a few predictions for the next 10-15 years. This was 15 years ago - and he got almost all of them right. I just don't want to dismiss him - besides it seems arrogant that we should…
on “Will superintelligence emerge on the Web?” ↗
test6554 · Mar 27, 2017 · Recommends

…began thinking about whether the outcome was desirable regardless of the work required, and if it was, I thought about what it would take to get it done. If I had to list a second book it woul be "The Age of Intelligent Machines" by Kurzweil
on “Ask HN: Which non-technology book has influenced you the most and why?” ↗
max_ · Dec 18, 2021 · Recommends

…All books by Dan Brown The Dan Brown books got me in to reading for fun. While some people may regard his books as thrillers, I consider them hard science fiction. I owe him my reading culture. 3. The age of intelligent machines. 4. The singularity is near. 5. The age of spiritual machines. ... all the above by Raymond Kurzweil These books introduced me to computer science.
on “Ask HN: Life Changing Books?” ↗
zackham · Apr 1, 2023 · Recommends

…only bothers to cite a Youtuber talking about his books. He's a fascinating character, has been a prescient futurist for many decades, and his books are very readable - check them out! His big 3 are The Age of Intelligent Machines, The Age of Spiritual Machines, and The Singularity is Near. The last one is the most recent and popular, and is what I'd point people towards.
on “Ray Kurzweil predicts humans will be immortal, identical to AI by 2045” ↗
aswanson · Mar 27, 2008 · Critical

…http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=142175 I like what his books do in terms of sparking the imagination, but take his claims with the same level of skepticism as I do an infomercial. Another thing is the repitition; if you've read Age of Intelligent Machines you've read Age of Spiritual Machines as well as Singularity is Near. Some of the predictions of Spiritual Machines have fallen short already: Most people don't use speech recognition to enter data…
on “Futurist Ray Kurzweil Pulls Out All the Stops (and Pills) to Live to Witness the Singularity” ↗
mindcrime · Mar 22, 2020 · Mentions

…Theories of Cognition - Alan Newell 13. The AGI Revolution - Ben Goertzel 14. How To Create A Mind - Ray Kurzweil 15. Case-Based Reasoning: A Textbook - Michael M. Richter & Rosina O. Weber 16. The Age of Intelligent Machines - Ray Kurzweil 17. The Singularity is Near - Ray Kurzweil 18. An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems - Michael J. Wooldridge 19. Engineering General Intelligence - Volume 1 - Ben Goertzel 20. Artificial…
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xiaoma · Mar 16, 2017 · Mentions

I read Kurzweil's earlier book, The Age of Intelligent Machines" as a boy and remember how fantastical it seemed. At the time I felt like he laid out a strong case for his predictions but every adult I knew, including my teachers, thought it was nuts... especially…
on “Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2029” ↗
raphar · Jan 31, 2011 · Mentions

1990 predictions by Ray Kurzweil in The Age of Intelligent Machines. Strangely (or on purpose) some topics are also in the OP: Early 2000s . Translating telephones allow people to speak to each other in different languages. . Machines designed to transcribe speech…
on “Predictions for the World in 2030” ↗
xiaoma · Feb 20, 2012 · Mentions

He's written either a book or lengthy paper about this every few years since he wrote The Age of Intelligent Machines in the late 80s. At that time mainstream opinion was that he was nuts. The book was especially ridiculed for its predictions of a computer AI unseating a world chess champ by 1998 and of the human genome…
on “Technological progress not slow or steady, but superexponential” ↗
SavantIdiot · Jan 6, 2022 · Mentions

Using Feynman to throw shade at Minsky. Nice. I read "Age of Intelligent Machines" by Kurzweil in 1990 and so far he's the only one that thinks human-like AI won't be until the 2100's, but he also has a more holistic view of intelligence (e.g., comparing evolution as an intelligent…
on “Chatbots: Still dumb after all these years” ↗
sgk284 · Mar 9, 2009 · Mentions

…one of the few guys whose predictions I take serious, simply because his track record is solid... in fact quite a few of is predictions he's directly made happen. If you look at the claims made in "The Age of Intelligent Machines", and the follow up a decade later in "The Age of Spiritual Machines", you realize the guy is pretty on the ball. Not 100% of the time, but even when he's wrong he usually got some part of it right.
on “Trailer now available for Ray Kurzweil's movie, "Transcendent Man"” ↗