The Age of Intelligent Machines
by Ray Kurzweil
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Discusses the scientific potential represented by intelligent machines and their social implications.Tags
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This is a good introduction to AI for the layman. I read it in high school and this book got me into computer science. It can be a little hard to find but if you are interested in Kurzweil's work, this is the best place to start and not with his more recent books.
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Ray Kurzweil was born on February 12, 1948. He was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral show more instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. He has received numerous awards including the MIT-Lemelson Prize and the National Medal of Technology. In 2002, he was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame. He has written several books including The Age of Spiritual Machines, The Age of Intelligent Machines, The Singularity Is Near, and How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1990
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- Genres
- Technology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Science & Nature
- DDC/MDS
- 006.3 — Computer science, information & general works Computer science, knowledge & systems Special computer methods (AI, barcoding, VR, web design, social media) Artificial Intelligence
- LCC
- Q335 .K87 — Science Science (General) Cybernetics
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- Languages
- English, German
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- Paper
- ISBNs
- 4
