商品描述
The noted inventor and futurist's successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil's
The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have spawned a worldwide movement. Kurzweil's predictions about technological advancements have largely come true, with concepts like AI, intelligent machines, and biotechnology now widely familiar to the public.
In this entirely new book Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances toward the Singularity--assessing his 1999 prediction that AI will reach human level intelligence by 2029 and examining the exponential growth of technology--that, in the near future, will expand human intelligence a millionfold and change human life forever. 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 connecting our brains to the cloud; how exponential technologies are propelling innovation forward in all industries and improving all aspects of our well-being such as declining poverty and violence; and the growth of renewable energy and 3-D printing. He also considers the potential perils of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, including such topics of current controversy as how AI will impact employment and the safety of autonomous cars, and "After Life" technology, which aims to virtually revive deceased individuals through a combination of their data and DNA.
The culmination of six decades of research on artificial intelligence,
The Singularity Is Nearer is Ray Kurzweil's crowning contribution to the story of this science and the revolution that is to come.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
著名發明家和未來學家的繼任者，他的里程碑之作《奇點临近》的繼續探索了科技將如何在未來幾十年改變人類。
自2005年首次出版以來，雷·库兹韦尔的《奇點临近》及其對指數增長未來的展望已經引發了全球運動。库兹韦尔對技術進步的預測在很大程度上已經實現，人工智能、智能機器和生物技術等概念現在已為公眾廣泛熟悉。
在這本全新的書中，雷·库兹韦尔對奇點的進展帶來了新的觀點，評估了他在1999年的預測，即到2029年，人工智能將達到人類水平的智能，並檢視了技術的指數增長，這將在不久的將來將人類智能擴展百萬倍，並永遠改變人類生活。他討論的主題包括使用納米機器人等設備逐原子重建世界；超越目前的120歲年齡極限的激進延長壽命；通過將我們的大腦連接到雲端來重新創造智能；指數增長的技術如何推動各行業的創新，改善我們福祉的各個方面，如貧困和暴力的減少；以及可再生能源和3D打印的增長。他還考慮了生物技術、納米技術和人工智能的潛在危險，包括當前有爭議的話題，如人工智能對就業和自動駕駛車輛安全的影響，以及“後生命”技術，該技術旨在通過結合數據和DNA來虛擬復活已故的個體。
作為對人工智能研究六十年的結晶，《奇點更近了》是雷·库兹韦尔對這一科學和即將到來的革命的最重要貢獻。
作者簡介
Ray Kurzweil is a world class inventor, thinker, and futurist, with a thirty-five-year track record of accurate predictions. He has been a leading developer in artificial intelligence for 61 years - longer than any other living person. He was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, omni-font optical character recognition, print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, text-to-speech synthesizer, music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition software. Ray received a GRAMMY(R) Award for outstanding achievement in music technology; he is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He has written five best-selling books including The Singularity Is Near and How to Create a Mind. He is a Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
雷·库兹韦尔（Ray Kurzweil）是一位世界级的发明家、思想家和未来学家，他准确预测的记录已有三十五年之久。他是人工智能领域的领先开发者，已有61年的从业经验，超过了任何其他在世人士。他是第一台CCD平板扫描仪、全字体光学字符识别、盲人用的打印转语音阅读机、文本转语音合成器、能够再现大钢琴和其他管弦乐器的音乐合成器，以及商业化市场上的大词汇语音识别软件的主要发明者。雷因在音乐技术方面的杰出成就而获得了格莱美奖（GRAMMY(R) Award）；他是国家技术奖章的获得者，并入选了国家发明家名人堂。他已经出版了五本畅销书，包括《奇点临近》（The Singularity Is Near）和《创造思维》（How to Create a Mind）。他是谷歌的首席研究员和人工智能愿景家。
