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How to Create a Mind
Ray Kurzweil ISBN 9781469203874
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Ray Kurzweil ISBN 9781469203874
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This book by Ray Kurzweil has come up 2 times on Lex Fridman. The people who brought it up: Lex Fridman, Ray Kurzweil. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2018-02-14 and the most recent from 2022-09-17. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
-- How to Create a Mind Kurzweil discusses how the brain functions, how the mind emerges from the brain, and the implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence in addressing the world?s problems. He thoughtfully examines emotional and moral intelligence and the origins of consciousness and envisions the radical possibilities of our merging with the intelligent technology we are creating. Certain to be one of the most widely discussed and debated science books of the year, How to Create a Mind.
“the neocortex which i described in how to create a mind the neocortex is actually it has different levels”— Ray Kurzweil
The guest here is Ray Kurzweil: Inventor, author, and futurist known for pioneering OCR and speech recognition and for popularizing the technological singularity. He is the author of books including The Singularity Is Near and How to Create a Mind. Ray Kurzweil defends his 2029 Turing test and 2045 singularity predictions, and explains how merging with AI could deliver immortality.
“the New York Times bestsellers The Singularity is near from 2005 and how to create a mind from 2012”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Ray Kurzweil: Inventor, futurist, and Google director of engineering; pioneer of OCR, text-to-speech, and music synthesizers, and author of The Singularity Is Near and How to Create a Mind. Ray Kurzweil traces the neocortex, deep learning's rise, and his case for merging with AI to reach longevity escape velocity.
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