'Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence' BILL GATESBy 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.

The Singularity is Nearer - When We Merge with AI

A radical and optimistic view of the future course of human development by "the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence" (Bill Gates).At the onset of the twenty-first century, humanity stands on the verge of the most transforming and thrilling period in its history. It will be an era in which the very nature of what it means to be human will be both enriched and challenged as our species breaks the shackles of its genetic legacy and achieves inconceivable heights of intelligence, material progress, and longevity. While the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes will be profound, and the threats they pose considerable, celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil presents a view of the coming age that is both a dramatic culmination of centuries of technological ingenuity and a genuinely inspiring vision of our ultimate destiny.

Humanité 2.0 : la bible du changement

L'immortalité ? Ce rêve est peut-être à notre portée. Les découvertes actuelles et attendues dans le domaine des biotechnologies et des nanotechnologies vont nous permettre d'allonger considérablement notre espérance de vie. Ray Kurzweil et Terry Grossman nous expliquent pourquoi, et nous montrent comment tirer parti de ce que l'on sait déjà. Ils explorent les incroyables perspectives offertes par la science. Ils nous apprennent comment adapter notre régime alimentaire et nous expliquent quels sont les exercices physiques à pratiquer et les tests médicaux à prévoir. Tout cela nous permettra d'éviter 90 % des maladies mortelles qui nous menacent et de vivre longtemps, voire éternellement... en bonne santé !

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