The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

By F. Stalder. Computer Science On-line Conference, 2001

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems

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Ergonomics Society of the Human Factors and Human Factors: The Journal (2014, unknown): “What of humans? Some futurists (Kurzweil, 1999) and “cyborgs” (Warwick, 2004) claim that the division between humans and machines will become increasingly blurred as machine intelligence grows and humans “augment” their cognition (Schmorrow, Stanney, Wilson, & Young, 2006; St.”
A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence (2007, unknown): “9 References 9 Keywords Intelligence definitions, collective, psychologist, artificial, universal.”
Humans: Still Vital After All These Years of Automation (2008, background): “What of humans? Some futurists (Kurzweil, 1999) and “cyborgs” (Warwick, 2004) claim that the division between humans and machines will become increasingly blurred as machine intelligence grows and humans “augment” their cognition (Schmorrow, Stanney, Wilson, & Young, 2006; St.”
Existential risks: analyzing human extinction scenarios and related hazards (2002, unknown): “An upload is a mind that has been transferred from a biological brain to a computer that emulates the computational processes that took place in the original biological neural network [19,33,53,54].”
Expectations and the Emergence of Nanotechnology (2007, background): “…thereafter, Ray Kurzweil, “techno-guru” author of The Age of Spiritual Machines (a book arguing for artificial intelligence and a dismissal of the dilemmas around downloading human consciousness; Kurzweil 1999), came to redeem nanotechnology in his article, “Promise and the Peril” (Kurzweil 2000).”
How Long Until Human-Level AI ? Results from an Expert Assessment (2011, background): “And noted futurist and AI inventor Ray Kurzweil has widely publicized his view that human-level AGI will be achieved within the next few decades [16-17] a view recently supported by Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner [18].”
“Just Roll Your Mouse Over Me”: Designing Virtual Women for Customer Service on the Web (2007, background): “Like Plantec, Ray Kurzweil (1999) also claims, albeit within the context of his future predictions for 2009, that “both male and female users prefer female personalities for their computer-based intelligent assistants.”
Data-driven geography (2014, unknown): “Perhaps this is a temporary stopgap until we achieve convergence between human and machine intelligence as some predict (Kurzweil 1999).”
Ethics of artificial intelligence and robotics (2020, background): “The optimistic argument from acceleration to singularity is spelled out by Kurzweil (1999, 2005, 2012), who essentially points out that computing power has been increasing exponentially, i.e. doubling ca. every 2 years since 1970 in accordance with ‘Moore’s Law’ on the number of transistors, and…”
Cultural evolution, the postbiological universe and SETI (2003, background): “In The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, Kurzweil (1999), also adopting the strong AI claim, sees the takeover of biological intelligence by AI, not by hostility, but by willing humans who have their brains scanned, uploaded to a computer, and live their lives as s”
Wireless Communications and Applications Above 100 GHz: Opportunities and Challenges for 6G and Beyond (2019, background): “There are about 100 billion ( 10 11 ) neurons in the human brain, each of which can ﬁre 200 times per second (5 ms update rate), and each neuron is connected to about 1000 others, resulting in a computation speed of 20 × 10 15 ﬂoating-point operations per second (ﬂops) [54], [55], which, if each ope”