How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

Artificial Intelligence & Semantics

Author: Ray Kurzweil

The bold futurist and bestselling author explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brainRay Kurzweil is arguably today’s most influential—and often controversial—futurist. In How to Create a Mind, Kurzweil presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in human-machine civilization—reverse engineering the brain to understand precis….Read More

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