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The Singularity Is Near portrays what life will be like after this event--a human-machine civilization where our experiences shift from real reality to virtual reality and where our intelligence becomes nonbiological and... more
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Steve Aoki It opened me up to the idea of science fiction becoming science fact. (Source)
Mark O'Connell I wouldn’t be the first to look at him this way but I read Kurzweil’s work as essentially a work of religious mysticism. I think there’s no other way to read it, really. (Source)
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- #22 in Algorithms
- #5 in Artificial Intelligence
- #87 in Biology
- #10 in Biotechnology
- #86 in Consciousness
- #3 in Deep Learning
- #50 in Engineering
- #62 in Evolution
- #3 in Futurism
- #27 in Genetics
- #3 in Genomics
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- #20 in Intelligence
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- #19 in Machine Learning
- #55 in Philosophy History
- #60 in Philosophy Of Science
- #27 in Robot
- #84 in STEM
- #66 in Science and Math
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