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• (Kurzweil, 2024) ⇒ Ray Kurzweil. (2024). “The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI.” Penguin Random House. ISBN:9780399562761

Subject Headings: Technological Singularity, How to Create a Mind, The Singularity Is Near, Artificial General Intelligence.

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• The Book explores the concept of the Singularity, where Artificial Intelligence reaches Human-Level Intelligence by 2029, leading to exponential growth in technology that will significantly enhance human capabilities.
• The Book discusses the potential for Radical Life Extension, suggesting that technological advancements could push human lifespans far beyond the current age limit of 120 years through innovations such as Nanobots and advanced Biotechnology.
• The Book addresses the integration of human brains with the cloud, proposing that this connection will vastly expand human intelligence and capabilities, enabling new forms of problem-solving and creativity.
• The Book evaluates the societal impacts of these technological advancements, including the potential perils such as job displacement due to AI, ethical considerations, and the safety of Autonomous Systems.
• The Book covers a wide range of topics related to technological progress, such as the growth of Renewable Energy, advancements in 3-D printing, and the potential to rebuild the world at an atomic level, highlighting the transformative power of these technologies on various industries and aspects of human well-being.

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  • The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI is a 2024 non-fiction book by futurist Ray Kurzweil. It is the sequel to his 2005 bestseller book The Singularity Is Near. The book was released on June 25, 2024. He reiterates two key dates from his previous book, which predicted that artificial intelligence (AI) would reach human intelligence by 2029 and merge with humans by 2045, an event he calls "The Singularity."

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Book Overview

Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have spawned a worldwide movement. Kurzweil’s predictions about technological advancements have largely come true, with concepts like AI, intelligent machines, and biotechnology now widely familiar to the public.

In this entirely new book Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances toward the Singularity—assessing his 1999 prediction that AI will reach human level intelligence by 2029 and examining the exponential growth of technology—that, in the near future, will expand human intelligence a millionfold and change human life forever. Among the topics he discusses are rebuilding the world, atom by atom with devices like nanobots; radical life extension beyond the current age limit of 120; reinventing intelligence by connecting our brains to the cloud; how exponential technologies are propelling innovation forward in all industries and improving all aspects of our well-being such as declining poverty and violence; and the growth of renewable energy and 3-D printing. He also considers the potential perils of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, including such topics of current controversy as how AI will impact employment and the safety of autonomous cars, and “After Life” technology, which aims to virtually revive deceased individuals through a combination of their data and DNA.

The culmination of six decades of research on artificial intelligence, The Singularity Is Nearer is Ray Kurzweil’s crowning contribution to the story of this science and the revolution that is to come.

Table of Contents

Dedication 
Acknowledgments 
Introduction 
Chapter 1: Where Are We in the Six Stages? 
Chapter 2: Reinventing Intelligence 
Chapter 3: Who Am I? 
Chapter 4: Life Is Getting Exponentially Better 
Chapter 5: The Future of Jobs: Good or Bad? 
Chapter 6: The Next Thirty Years in Health and Well-Being 
Chapter 7: Peril 
Chapter 8: Dialogue with Cassandra 
Appendix

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2024 TheSingularityIsNearerWhenWeMer	Ray Kurzweil			The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI						2024