intellectualammo
01-04-2010, 09:03 PM
Anyone read this, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence written by Ray Kurzweil, sounds perfect for me in my growing interst in AI, (like in this initial topic of mine http://www.literaturejunction.com/non-fiction/22394-l-s-robots.html, et al) and it's available as a Kindle edition:
Amazon.com: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (9780140282023): Ray Kurzweil: Books (http://www.amazon.com/Age-Spiritual-Machines-Computers-Intelligence/dp/0140282025)
or this one of his? The Age of Intelligent Machines
Amazon.com: The Age of Intelligent Machines (9780262610797): Ray Kurzweil: Books (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262610795/$%7B0%7D)
Read about it in this article, in Psychology Today online:
Approaching The Bionic Age | Psychology Today (http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199909/approaching-the-bionic-age)
From article:
In 100 years, Kurzweil writes, we will see that "human thinking is merging with the world of artificial intelligence (AI) that the human species initially created."
Indeed, that has already started; daily newspapers recently reported the development of an electronic chip that--acting as a neural sensor of brain activities--enables a totally paralyzed man to control a computer cursor using just his thoughts.
Kurzweil writes, quoting physician Rick Torsch: "We used to treat the brain like soup... [but] now we're treating it like circuitry."
National Geographic magizine features this topic, the Bionic Age, in their current issue, that initially caught my attention, though I have not read it:
http://m.nationalgeographic.com/mag/44135/;jsessionid=3C9068DC97BEB03834326163A5E63B5E.wap2
Amazon.com: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (9780140282023): Ray Kurzweil: Books (http://www.amazon.com/Age-Spiritual-Machines-Computers-Intelligence/dp/0140282025)
or this one of his? The Age of Intelligent Machines
Amazon.com: The Age of Intelligent Machines (9780262610797): Ray Kurzweil: Books (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262610795/$%7B0%7D)
Read about it in this article, in Psychology Today online:
Approaching The Bionic Age | Psychology Today (http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199909/approaching-the-bionic-age)
From article:
In 100 years, Kurzweil writes, we will see that "human thinking is merging with the world of artificial intelligence (AI) that the human species initially created."
Indeed, that has already started; daily newspapers recently reported the development of an electronic chip that--acting as a neural sensor of brain activities--enables a totally paralyzed man to control a computer cursor using just his thoughts.
Kurzweil writes, quoting physician Rick Torsch: "We used to treat the brain like soup... [but] now we're treating it like circuitry."
National Geographic magizine features this topic, the Bionic Age, in their current issue, that initially caught my attention, though I have not read it:
http://m.nationalgeographic.com/mag/44135/;jsessionid=3C9068DC97BEB03834326163A5E63B5E.wap2