Almost halfway through the book! He also offers his own high-level ideas that are mostly a restatement of what can already be found in other books (such as Hawkins' On Intelligence) with a few modifications (he admits this himself though at one point, for which he gets bonus points). This book was fascinating and mildly terrifying. How to Create a Mind is certain to be one of the most widely discussed and debated science books in many yearsa touchstone for any consideration of the path of human progress. Refresh and try again. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 November 2017. November 13th 2012 I confess I skipped many pages, unable to follow the specialist lingo and associated equations. Conditions apply. Finally, he applies his Law Of Accelerating Returns (LOAR) to field of AI and produces some predictions for the future of this field. A pioneering inventor and theorist, he has explored for decades how artificial intelligence can enrich and expand human capabilities. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 November 2019, Readable if you really want to get to grips with the subject, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 October 2019. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, The Social Singularity: How decentralization will allow us to transcend politics, create global prosperity, and avoid the robot apocalypse, The Human Brain Book: An Illustrated Guide to its Structure, Function, and Disorders. Some of his claims might be wild, but they definitely spark curiosity and open the reader's mind to a world that might look very very different in a few years. How to Create a Mind Unable to add item to List. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Some of his claims might be wild, but they definitely spark curiosity. He went on to take his lucky reader on a tour of the future of the mind, teaching them about everything that has been done to date to try to create a mind. Please try your request again later. So, buckle up. al.). Artificial Intelligence: 101 Things You Must Know Today About Our Future - Updated ... Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era: Lessons from Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple,... To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Very interesting and not something I expected to learn from this book. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Kinda like having to sort through a hundred boxes of cereal for a single prize that you have to put together yourself. Kurzweil paints a bright picture over a frightening future where humans and computer minds blur and robots overtake the world. Kurzweil shows how these insights will enable us to greatly extend the powers of our own mind and provides a road map for the creation of super-intelligence—humankind’s most exciting next venture. Now, in his much-anticipated How to Create a Mind, he takes this exploration to the next step: reverse-engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works, then applying that knowledge to create vastly intelligent machines. A fascinating weave of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and the philosophy of mind. After doing some research into the book and reading a little preview online; it got me really interested. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Artificial Intelligence book - Updated and expanded version 2019. We're all pretty smart around here. On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines, Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever. The thing about fiction is that I accept errors or lack of reference as long as the story is interesting. I will always buy Ray's books. I like Kurzweil. His PRTM (pattern recognition theory of mind - sigh), is based on the idea that the algorithm used by the neocortex in processing is uniform across the entire structure. Kurzweil's main point is the Pattern Recognition Theory of Mind: that idea the human brain is nothing more than a series of pattern recognizers and mechanisms for interpreting and acting on those patterns. He details how the neocortex recognizes patterns and stores information hierarchically, producing memory, consciousness and identity. To do so, a digital brain would need a human narrative of its own fictional story so that it can pretend to be a biological human. I'm just going to warn everyone at the offset: this book triggered my grumpy, cane-waving, "you kids get off my lawn" reflexes pretty hardcore. Very interesti. I'd picked this book up assuming that it'd be just about artificial intelligence. Learn more about the program. Build a world-class skillset that will make you unique and irreplaceable. The author finishes by taking on objections to his ideas.