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The Singularity Is Nearer Hardcover – June 27 2024

by Ray Kurzweil (Author)
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By the end of this decade, AI will exceed human levels of intelligence. During the 2030s, it will become 'superintelligent', vastly outstripping our capabilities by almost every measure and enabling dramatic new interventions in our bodies. By 2045, we will be able to connect our brains directly with AI, enhancing our intelligence a millionfold and expanding our consciousness in ways we can barely imagine. This is the Singularity.

Ray Kurzweil is one of the greatest inventors of our time with over 60 years' experience in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Dozens of his long-range predictions about the rise of the internet, AI and bioengineering have been borne out. In this visionary and fundamentally optimistic book, Kurzweil explains how the Singularity will occur and explores what it will mean to live free from the limits of biology.

What will we choose if our bodies need no longer define us? What new realms of beauty, connection and wonder might we inhabit? Who will we become if our minds can be stored and duplicated? How will we navigate the risks presented by such awesomely powerful technology?

Drawing on a lifetime's expertise and marshalling the evidence of today's rapidly accelerating advances, Kurzweil presents deeply reasoned answers to these questions and argues that we can and will transform life on earth profoundly for the better.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bodley Head
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 27 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1847928293
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1847928290
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 658 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.3 x 4 x 24.1 cm
  • Part of series ‏ : ‎ The Singularity is Near
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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 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, both New York Times best sellers, and Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine, winner of multiple young adult fiction awards. His forthcoming book, The Singularity Is Nearer, will be released June 25, 2024. He is a Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google.

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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars on page 51 so far
    Reviewed in Canada on March 21, 2025
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    just started to read it, like so far
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  • George Ortega
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book But Recieved with Damaged Cover
    Reviewed in Canada on August 27, 2024
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    This is an excellent book that predicts where mankind and AI are going into the future.
    Unfortunately, the book's cover was recieved crumpled on the front lower right corner. This is not acceptable.
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  • Aylar
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
    Reviewed in Canada on February 11, 2025
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    Arrived in great condition and package. And great book too.
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  • Henry Rojo
    5.0 out of 5 stars information in it..
    Reviewed in Canada on February 1, 2025
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    OUtstanding
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  • Wayne Caissie
    3.0 out of 5 stars Meh
    Reviewed in Canada on September 13, 2024
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    It was definitely eye opening, and he does give a LOT of information on how he comes to his conclusions, but I definitely find that he suffers from linear thinking.

    He talks constantly about how your brain will remain there underneath everything and you can do all these body-modification stuff. But seriously, if progress is moving as fast as he says, we'll get rid of biological bodies so fast. Seriously, if exponential progress is such a believable thing, then every species that follows our progress will quickly turn into a machine-only species.

    Watch him on the Joe Rogan podcast, he talks about all the hype behind what's going to happen, but you can tell he's thinking we'll retain a large amount of human-ness - VERY unbelievable if the trajectory he lays out in the book is true.
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  • Adi T
    5.0 out of 5 stars It's a TEXTBOOK
    Reviewed in Canada on August 23, 2024
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    No one IMHO is more qualified to write such a book that should be read and REread in twenty years! Good gift for my grandson.
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  • Amir
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great book overall
    Reviewed in Canada on August 15, 2024
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    Great read. Some of his predictions seem outta pocket but overall its worth the buy. We'll see how it all pans out I guess.
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  • Christian
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read
    Reviewed in Canada on October 16, 2024
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    Really interesting and instructive.
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  • Diego
    5.0 out of 5 stars Shockingly Amazing Experience
    Reviewed in Italy on August 20, 2024
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    I waited for the publication of this book for over a year. The result is amazing. Ray is a genius when it comes to explaining with logic and simplicity a future unimaginable to many people. He has been often right in his predictions and now reading about such transformations in the next 20 years gives me so much food for thought. I was aware of many technological advancements and theories presented, but what stroked me most is how Ray connects the dots and logically creates the future in which we probably live in. Everybody should be aware of the concepts, developments, and theories within this book. I look forward to dig deeper on these topics.
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  • PJ
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interested in the future of AI! Read this book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 3, 2025
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    I found this a really informative book. Some of the predictions were backed up by science, facts and philosophical arguments . Occasionally I lost the thread a bit, as I didn’t understand some of the narrative. However, this is a great book and I’ve given it five stars.
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  • anton
    1.0 out of 5 stars boken var använd
    Reviewed in Sweden on July 11, 2024
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    boken levererades ej i nyskick utan var tydligt att den var använd och hade lånats/lästs av någon annan.
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  • behzad
    2.0 out of 5 stars Meandering, repetitive, very little new material
    Reviewed in the Netherlands on July 9, 2024
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    What a disappointment. The Singularity is Near has a proud place in my book collection, so I was thrilled to see Ray Kurzweil had written a follow-up. In reality, this is more of a reprint of the original with only the first (very short) part feeling like genuinely new material.

    Moreover, much of the rest of the book is full of meandering waffle that gets incredibly irritating after a while. At some point Ray starts going on about the proliferation of flushing toilets in the 20th century. I kid you not. Just too many tangents like this. At that point I requested a refund.

    If you haven't read the first book, this may be worth a look still for some of the nice insights into the speed of technological progress. And I like the fact that Ray emphasises how much good progress has happened over the years in eg. crime reduction, which most of the public don't seem to realise (presumably, otherwise they wouldn't be voting for loonies like Trump).
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  • Jan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and highly optimistic book about the coming decades
    Reviewed in Germany on May 1, 2025
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    Kurzweil writes an interesting and highly optimistic book about the coming decades. I would recommend to read it even though I think he is fairly naive about the future. For balance reasons, I would also recommend to have a more pessimistic (and in my view realistic) view on the coming revolutions, I recommend "The coming wave" by Mustafa Suleyman (CEO Microsoft AI) or "Nexus" by Y.N. Harari
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