Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence

A fascinating exploration of our future, which raises the most profound philosophical questions -- YUVAL NOAH HARARI

Few people have shaped how the world thinks about AI like Ray Kurzweil. Now, with The Singularity Is Nearer, he has written an expansive and hopeful guide to a fast-approaching future that will once again set the terms of debate. Grounded in decades of meticulous research, and written with impressive clarity across an immense canvas, it's essential reading for anyone wanting to understand our exponential times

MUSTAFA SULEYMAN, CEO of Microsoft AI and author of The Coming Wave

Ray Kurzweil is the greatest oracle of our digital age. The Singularity Is Nearer is more than just a book—it's a survival guide for the technological renaissance we're about to experience. Ray’s accurate projections of what is likely to happen and when, makes the difference between surfing atop the tsunami of change, versus being crushed by it

Peter H. Diamandis, founder of the XPRIZE

Kurzweil makes a compelling case . . . It is only 2023 and already the world he envisioned years ago is taking shape. Curious about the Future? Read this book

Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google

When it comes to artificial intelligence, no one has more experience than Ray Kurzweil

What Kurzweil describes in his book isn't just the dawn of a beautiful new age, but the unknowable night at the ending of one

This is one of the best books to read to understand the urgent now

Exhilarating and scary ... It sounds like science ficiton, but Kurzweil has often proved an accurate prophet

When We Merge with AI

By the end of this decade, AI will exceed human levels of intelligence. During the 2030s, it will become ‘superintelligent’, vastly outstripping our capabilities by almost every measure and enabling dramatic new interventions in our bodies. By 2045, we will be able to connect our brains directly with AI, enhancing our intelligence a millionfold and expanding our consciousness in ways we can barely imagine. This is the Singularity. 
Ray Kurzweil is one of the greatest inventors of our time with over 60 years’ experience in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Dozens of his long-range predictions about the rise of the internet, AI and bioengineering have been borne out. In this visionary and fundamentally optimistic book, Kurzweil explains how the Singularity will occur and explores what it will mean to live free from the limits of biology. 
What will we choose if our bodies need no longer define us? What new realms of beauty, connection and wonder might we inhabit? Who will we become if our minds can be stored and duplicated? How will we navigate the risks presented by such awesomely powerful technology? 
Drawing on a lifetime’s expertise and marshalling the evidence of today’s rapidly accelerating advances, Kurzweil presents deeply reasoned answers to these questions and argues that we can and will transform life on earth profoundly for the better.

Ray Kurzweil

Praise for The Singularity is Nearer

Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence

A fascinating exploration of our future, which raises the most profound philosophical questions -- YUVAL NOAH HARARI

Few people have shaped how the world thinks about AI like Ray Kurzweil. Now, with The Singularity Is Nearer, he has written an expansive and hopeful guide to a fast-approaching future that will once again set ...

Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence

A fascinating exploration of our future, which raises the most profound philosophical questions -- YUVAL NOAH HARARI

Few people have shaped how the world thinks about AI like Ray Kurzweil. Now, with The Singularity Is Nearer, he has written an expansive and hopeful guide to a fast-approaching future that will once again set ...

Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence

A fascinating exploration of our future, which raises the most profound philosophical questions -- YUVAL NOAH HARARI

Few people have shaped how the world thinks about AI like Ray Kurzweil. Now, with The Singularity Is Nearer, he has written an expansive and hopeful guide to a fast-approaching future that will once again set ...

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