The Singularity is Nearer

Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence -- BILL GATES A fascinating exploration of our future, which raises the most profound philosophical questions -- YUVAL NOAH HARARI Few people have shaped how the world thinks about AI like Ray Kurzweil. Now, with The Singularity Is Nearer, he has written an expansive and hopeful guide to a fast-approaching future that will once again set the terms of debate. Grounded in decades of meticulous research, and written with impressive clarity across an immense canvas, it's essential reading for anyone wanting to understand our exponential times -- MUSTAFA SULEYMAN, CEO of Microsoft AI and author of The Coming Wave Ray Kurzweil is the greatest oracle of our digital age. The Singularity Is Nearer is more than just a bookit's a survival guide for the technological renaissance we're about to experience. Rays accurate projections of what is likely to happen and when, makes the difference between surfing atop the tsunami of change, versus being crushed by it -- Peter H. Diamandis, founder of the XPRIZE Kurzweil makes a compelling case . . . It is only 2023 and already the world he envisioned years ago is taking shape. Curious about the Future? Read this book -- Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google When it comes to artificial intelligence, no one has more experience than Ray Kurzweil * BBC Focus * What Kurzweil describes in his book isn't just the dawn of a beautiful new age, but the unknowable night at the ending of one * Mail on Sunday * This is one of the best books to read to understand the urgent now * Prospect, *Books of the Year* * Exhilarating and scary ... It sounds like science ficiton, but Kurzweil has often proved an accurate prophet * Daily Mail, *Books of the Year 2024* *

Ray Kurzweil is the field of AIs longest-serving expert, the inventor of numerous world-changing technologies and the author of several best-selling books. The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999) and The Singularity is Near (2005), in which he first predicted that computers would reach human level intelligence by 2029 and outlined his vision of the merging of human and artificial intelligence, have together inspired several major films, hundreds of books and thousands of articles. Many of his inventions, such as text and speech recognition, and vocal and musical synthesizers, have enabled breakthroughs in communication between humans and computers. He is a Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google, the recipient of the US National Medal of Technology and Innovation, one of the nations highest honours, and a member of the US National Inventors Hall of Fame.