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Who is the best author today writing on mind and consciousness?
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Jun 17, 2013
Rachel Williams
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
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cognitive-science,
philosophy-of-mind
I had always dismissed Kurzweil's theories about "strong" artificial intelligence to be wishful thinking but this book changed my mind. I'm not quite as optimistic about scaling things up to human adult levels, but reading this book gave me new found respect for his ideas and the evidence and theories he uses to back them up. I had no idea how powerful "hidden Markov models" are for solving problems, and Kurzweil makes a good argument that neocortical pattern recognition (essentially a form of p
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Kurzweil's book about the mind is a fascinating read. He describes how our minds work and develop. He demonstrates how important patterns and hiearchies (spelled wrong) to our ability to learn new skills and how our brain processes thoughts and solves problems.
He talks about the future of artificial intelligence and describes the progress that has been made in this field. He talks about the computer that beat the World Chess Champion in the 1990's and the computer named Watson that beat the two ...more
He talks about the future of artificial intelligence and describes the progress that has been made in this field. He talks about the computer that beat the World Chess Champion in the 1990's and the computer named Watson that beat the two ...more
I enjoyed the interplay between human mind and artificial, and what makes them similar. Fun read.
I almost gave this book 4 stars due to the funny way in which he alternated between overly specialized technical language to overly dumbed-down language. But I really enjoyed and valued the book's contents enough to overlook this quirk.
Having always been interested in machine/artificial intelligence, it was great to get a big picture of the state of the art.
I think Google's recent acquisition of this man, will be looked back on as a important historical event. ...more
Having always been interested in machine/artificial intelligence, it was great to get a big picture of the state of the art.
I think Google's recent acquisition of this man, will be looked back on as a important historical event. ...more
Very informative and thought provoking from Kurzweil.
Sep 30, 2013
Soulcatcher
rated it
it was ok
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review of another edition
Shelves:
mind,
cognitive-science
Mar 01, 2016
Sergey Kapustin
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it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
read-again,
books-i-would-recommend
Jun 29, 2017
Alan Stout
marked it as to-read
