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Age of Spiritual Machines

Ray Kurzweil

How We Will Live, Work, and Think in the New Age of Intelligent Machines; 1999...Computers able to perform a trillion calculations per second...Most routine business transactions take place between a human and virtual personality...Translating telephones are commonly used for most language pairs...B...

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How I Built This with Guy Raz

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How I Built This with Guy Raz

It was mentioned as the book that convinced Shane Legg that powerful and general AI systems were going to come but a few decades into the future.

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I actually became convinced, particularly after reading The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil, that artificial, very powerful and general AI systems were going to come but some a few decades i...

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Episode: AI is smarter than you think with Shane Legg of Go...

It was mentioned as the book that convinced Shane Legg that powerful and general AI systems were going to come but a few decades into the future.

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I actually became convinced, particularly after reading The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil, that artificial, very powerful and general AI systems were going to come but some a few decades into the future.

StarTalk Radio

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StarTalk Radio

In this book, published in 1999, Ray Kurzweil predicted that the Turing Test would be passed by 2029, meaning a computer would be able to demonstrate the ability to think and behave like a human.

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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

In this book, published in 1999, Ray Kurzweil predicted that the Turing Test would be passed by 2029, meaning a computer would be able to demonstrate the ability to think and behave like a human.

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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 Kurzweil

The book predicted that we would pass the Turing Test by 2029, which would mean that a computer could do everything that a human could do.

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And 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.

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