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The Singularity Is Near
Ray Kurzweil ISBN 9780593163269
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Ray Kurzweil ISBN 9780593163269
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This book by Ray Kurzweil has come up 5 times across 2 different shows: Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Duncan Trussell, Lex Fridman, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2018-02-14 and the most recent from 2024-06-27. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations.
“so I'm reading the singularity is near R Kell's book I [ __ ] love revisiting that book he's talking about like how do we”— Duncan Trussell
The guest here is Duncan Trussell: Comedian, podcaster (Duncan Trussell Family Hour) and longtime Joe Rogan friend known for psychedelic, philosophical, free-associating riffs. Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell riff on masks, cobalt mining, drugs, AI, the funeral industry, hollow Earth, and humanity's recurring collapse.
“in your 2005 book titled the singularities near you predicted that the singularity will happen in 2045”— Lex Fridman
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.
“i even assign it to my students in my classes i'm like this is this is it you know this is like a really great book of the singularity”— guest
The guest here is Diana Walsh Pasulka: Professor of philosophy and religion at UNC Wilmington and author of American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, and Technology. She studies belief, Catholic history, and how the UFO phenomenon functions as an emerging religion. A religion scholar argues UFOs are becoming a new religion, and that belief itself, in tech and aliens alike, manifests reality.
“Ray has written five national best-selling books including the New York Times bestsellers The Singularity is near from 2005”— 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.
“well in the singularities near I talked about the atomic limits based on molecular computing as we understand it”— guest
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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