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The Singularity is nearer : when we merge with AI

Kurzweil, Ray2024
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"This successor volume to The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will refashion the human race in the decades to come. In this entirely new book, Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances in the singularity-assessing the progress of many of his predictions and examining the novel advancements that, in the near future, will bring a revolution in knowledge and an expansion of human potential. Among the topics he discusses are rebuilding the world atom by atom with devices like nanobots; radical life extension beyond the current age limit of 120; reinventing intelligence by expanding biological capacity with nonbiological intelligence in the cloud; how life is improving with declines in poverty and violence; and the growth of technologies that can be applied to everything from clothes to building materials to growing human organs. He also considers the potential perils of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, including such topics as how AI will impact unemployment and the safety of autonomous cars, and "After Life" technology, which will reanimate people who have passed away through a combination of data and DNA"--
Author:
Imprint:
London : The Bodley Head, 2024.
Collation:
xii, 419 pages ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Where are we in the six stages?Reinventing intelligenceWho am I?Life is getting exponentially betterFuture of jobs: good or bad?The next thirty years in health and well-beingPerilDialogue with Cassandra.
ISBN:
97818479283061847928307
Dewey class:
612.82681.761612.761
Language:
English
BRN:
574555
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
Sandringham LibraryNon Fiction681.761 KUROn order
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