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Index
Cover
Also by Ray Kurzweil
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Where Are We in the Six Stages?
Chapter 2: Reinventing Intelligence
What Does It Mean to Reinvent Intelligence?
The Birth of AI
The Cerebellum: A Modular Structure
The Neocortex: A Self-Modifying, Hierarchical, Flexible Structure
Deep Learning: Re-creating the Powers of the Neocortex
What Does AI Still Need to Achieve?
Passing the Turing Test
Extending the Neocortex into the Cloud
Chapter 3: Who Am I?
What Is Consciousness?
Zombies, Qualia, and the Hard Problem of Consciousness
Determinism, Emergence, and the Free Will Dilemma
The Free Will Dilemma of More than One Brain per Human
“You 2” Is Conscious. Is It You?
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being
After Life
Who Can I Be?
Chapter 4: Life Is Getting Exponentially Better
The Public Consensus Is the Opposite
The Reality Is That Nearly Every Aspect of Life Is Getting Progressively Better as a Result of Exponentially Improving Technology
Literacy and Education
Availability of Flush Toilets, Electricity, Radio, Television, and Computers
Life Expectancy
Decline in Poverty and Increase in Income
Decline in Violence
Growth of Renewable Energy
Spread of Democracy
We Are Now Entering the Steep Part of the Exponential
Renewable Energy Is Approaching Complete Replacement of Fossil Fuels
We Are Approaching Clean Water Access for Everyone
Vertical Agriculture Will Provide Inexpensive, High-Quality Food and Free Up the Land We Use for Horizontal Agriculture
3D Printing Will Revolutionize the Creation and Distribution of Physical Things
3D Printing of Buildings
Diligent People Will Achieve Longevity Escape Velocity by Around 2030
The Rising Tide
Chapter 5: The Future of Jobs: Good or Bad?
The Current Revolution
Destruction and Creation
Is This Time Different?
So Where Are We Headed?
Chapter 6: The Next Thirty Years in Health and Well-Being
The 2020s: Combining AI with Biotechnology
The 2030s and 2040s: Developing and Perfecting Nanotechnology
Applying Nanotechnology to Health and Longevity
Chapter 7: Peril
Promise and Peril
Nuclear Weapons
Biotechnology
Nanotechnology
Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 8: Dialogue with Cassandra
Appendix: Price-Performance of Computation, 1939–2023 Chart Sources
Notes
Index
About the Author
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