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The Age of Spiritual Machines When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

Ray Kurzweil

The creator of the Kurzweil Reading Machine, the Kurzweil synthesizer, and the Windows 95 voice-recognition program offers logical and readable forecasts about twenty-first century technology. 65,000 first printing. Tour.

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StarTalk Radio

It was mentioned in relation to the prediction that the Turing test would be passed by 2029. Ray Kurzweil predicted this in his 1999 book, which was mentioned in the discussion of AI capabilities.

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In 1999, when I wrote The Age of Spiritual Machines, I predicted that we would pass the Turing Test by 2029, so in 30 years.

— Episode: Could We Someday Live Forever? With Ray...

Episode: Could We Someday Live Forever? With Ray Kurzweil

It was mentioned in relation to the prediction that the Turing test would be passed by 2029. Ray Kurzweil predicted this in his 1999 book, which was mentioned in the discussion of AI capabilities.

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In 1999, when I wrote The Age of Spiritual Machines, I predicted that we would pass the Turing Test by 2029, so in 30 years.

Episode: Gazing into the Future with Ray Kurzweil

It was mentioned as a book written by Ray Kurzweil in the 1990s where he predicted computers would achieve human-level intelligence and emotional capabilities by 2029, making them 'spiritual machines'.

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Going back to a book I wrote in the 1990s, the Age of Spiritual Machines.

Episode: A Conversation with Ray Kurzweil

The speaker published this book in 1999, and it discussed the topic of consciousness as the ultimate spiritual value.

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You wrote a book in 1999 called The Age of Spiritual Machines.

Episode: Gazing into the Future with Ray Kurzweil

It was mentioned that in the book, Ray Kurzweil predicted computers would have human intellectual and emotional abilities by 2029.

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Going back to a book I wrote in the 1990s, the Age of Spiritual Machines.

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