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  • Published: 1 January 2000
  • ISBN: 9780140282023
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $49.99

The Age of Spiritual Machines

When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence



The inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and bestselling author of The Singularity is Nearer now offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century in The Age of Spiritual Machines--an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live.

Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future takes us through the advances that inexorably result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain by the year 2020 (with human-level capabilities not far behind); in relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers; and in information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways. Optimistic and challenging, thought-provoking and engaging, The Age of Spiritual Machines is the ultimate guide on our road into the next century.

  • Published: 1 January 2000
  • ISBN: 9780140282023
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $49.99

About the author

RAY KURZWEIL

Ray Kurzweil is one of the greatest inventors of our time and the author of several prescient books, including The Singularity Is Near and The Age of Spiritual Machines. Over the past thirty years, dozens of his predictions about technology have been borne out, including the rise of the internet, AI and bioengineering, while his vision of ‘the singularity’ has inspired several major films, hundreds of books and thousands of articles. He is a former director of engineering at Google, the recipient of the US National Medal of Technology and Innovation, one of the nation’s highest honours, and is a member of the US National Inventors Hall of Fame. He lives in Boston.

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