https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2014/03/book-review-the-singularity-is-near-by-ray-kurzweil-2005 Safeguarding Humanity Sun, 04 Jun 2017 19:08:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2014/03/book-review-the-singularity-is-near-by-ray-kurzweil-2005#comment-192966 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 20:03:44 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=10367#comment-192966 Warfare? You mean with all that intelligence we will still have war? Why, other than as some sort of game?

]]> https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2014/03/book-review-the-singularity-is-near-by-ray-kurzweil-2005#comment-189493 Thu, 20 Mar 2014 05:04:52 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=10367#comment-189493 “The Singularity Is Near is not the type of book one peruses and ignores. Based on outright hard science, hi-tech and advanced math, the pervasive critical analytical techniques of Kurzweil have been extremely helpful to me and I will certainly recommend him to others. As the future is overtly hidden and yet in front of us, he will show us how exactly to devise the detailed pathway to get it right and thrive.”

]]> https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2014/03/book-review-the-singularity-is-near-by-ray-kurzweil-2005#comment-189145 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:15:33 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=10367#comment-189145 Thanks for a fascinating and balanced critique of an important text. Since the brain is the most complex phenomenon yet discovered in the universe I agree with Harry about watching out for the fallacy of techno-optimism, especially when looking ahead to AI systems. Why invest R & D dollars in trying to recreate AI when we haven’t yet learnt to use all our existing human brain power? IQ comes before AI. Great review!

]]> https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2014/03/book-review-the-singularity-is-near-by-ray-kurzweil-2005#comment-188967 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 02:55:17 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=10367#comment-188967 This review was fine until it turned into an anti-American rant.

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