The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge With Ai

Ray Kurzweil

£25.00

The legendary oracle of technological change explains how AI will transform our species beyond recognition.

Hardback

Non-Fiction > Science & Technology

ISBN: 9781847928290

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By the end of this decade, AI will exceed human levels of intelligence.

During the 2030s, it will become ‘superintelligent’, vastly outstripping our capabilities and enabling dramatic 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, whose long-range predictions about the rise of the internet, AI and bioengineering have all borne out.

In this visionary, fundamentally optimistic book, Kurzweil explains how the Singularity will occur, explores what it will mean to live free from the limits of biology and argues that we can and will transform life on Earth profoundly for the better.

The greatest oracle of our digital age’ – Peter H. Diamandis, founder of XPRIZE

Curious about the future? Read this book’ – Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google

The best person I know at predicting the future of AI’ – Bill Gates

Essential reading to understand our exponential times’ – Mustafa Suleyman

Fascinating…raises the most profound philosophical questions’ – Yuval Noah Harari

 

 

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Weight 1 kg
Dimensions 25 × 17 × 8 cm