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SINGULARITY IS NEARER

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DY66QLJ2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ ZapZap (20 January 2021); ZapZap
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 9 years and up
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India
Packer ‏ : ‎ ZapZap

Reviewer: Naman Rajput
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Go for it
Review: This book really provides a insightful perspective of singularity

Reviewer: Rajiv Chopra
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Impossibly Optimistic
Review: “The Singularity is Nearer” is Ray Kurzweil’s follow-up book to “The Singularity is Near.” In that book, he focused on the advances that will help humanity transcend biological constraints: synthetic biology. He focused on nanobots and how they will help humans improve their immunity and possibly live longer.This book focuses on artificial intelligence and how the advances happening in this field are fast enough to make the singularity seem closer. Ray Kurzweil’s definition of singularity is that point where the advances in ‘technology’ are so rapid that they blur the lines between nature and technology. However, according to his definition, ‘technology’ refers to fields like data mining, nanotechnology, information, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology. He is not referring to technologies like steelmaking.From another perspective, it is where ‘machine intelligence’ outstrips ‘human intelligence.’This book is much more accessible than his earlier book but stresses the validity of his earlier claims. Deep Mind, the company created AlphaGo, which defeated the world’s top Go masters. Then, they created AlphaGo Zero, which started learning Go from scratch, defeating Alpha Go.It is impossible to refute his claims. However, we can challenge his unbridled optimism. Ray Kurzweil remains convinced nanobots will help us live longer, maybe for centuries, and he envisages a world where long-lived humans will live in real worlds, augmented reality and virtual reality. In his view, such a life will help us live fulfilling lives, a claim yet to be tested.Further, he believes a self-learning AI system will train itself to be benevolent. However, if the initial inputs contain seeds of malice, can we train this super-intelligent entity to be a gentle soul? Here, I believe he contradicts himself because while he exhorts us not to take the past as an indicator of future behavior, he states that humanity will not create evil machines because we have not detonated nuclear bombs since World War II! The genocide in Gaza, the war in Ukraine, and other horrible events happening now do not support his optimism, so read his sunny predictions with caution.Advances in synthetic biology may help us lengthen our life spans. If we ignore any attendant philosophical questions, won’t technological advances make the first generation of cyborg humans redundant in record time? Apple Computer launched its M1 chips a few years back and launched its fourth generation M4 chips. They are building obsolescence into their products even as I write this review.Ray Kurzweil ignores the distinct possibility of humans dying because of technological obsolescence. While we must be optimistic, it is better to be realistic. The book ignores the impact of all these changes on global society, including the animal and plant kingdom.If we must play God, we must first gain wisdom.Read the book. It is imperative to do so because we must understand what is happening and gain an inkling of humanity’s, if not the planet’s, possible future.

Reviewer: arihant singh
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good read
Review: Ray kurzweil takes you through AI development and his take on whats coming worth a read

Reviewer: Haider Husaini
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Just Brilliant
Review: Very informative and very well written too

Reviewer: Nisarg Sutaria
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Awesome Book 🙂 Very Latest 🙂
Review: Nice To Read. Excellent Information. Latest Technology Mentioned. 🙂

Reviewer: Aylar
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Arrived in great condition and package. And great book too.

Reviewer: Cliente de Amazon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Todos los libros que he comprado son para mi esposo y El me los relata, este me dice que esposo interesante

Reviewer: Cliente Kindle
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: The author presents an optimistic and encouraging vision about the future of artificial intelligence.

Reviewer: Michael E. Martin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: To have a sense of what we can expect in the future, we have to examine the trends of the past. That is the foundation of this very readable book. Kurzweil does a thorough job of presenting historical data in graphs and tables and explaining how the trends point to what we can expect in the next quarter century. You’d think this is all technology focused, but it is much more than that. He looks at trends in violent crime (declining), health and longevity (improving), poverty (declining) and other factors and explains how social trends enhance the development of technology and in turn how technology has a positive impact on society.This is an excellent choice for book club discussions. There’s enough detail about advancing technology to help the layperson to understand it and at the same time encourage further research. Since it a prediction of the future, one can make a argument in support of his conclusions or suggest some alternative paths. I can envision some spirited discussions.When you think about, looking to the future is an accelerating trend in itself. The Singularity is Nearer and Kurzweil’s other books are both the catalyst and result of that trend.

Reviewer: PJ
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: 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.

4.5

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