Book review
The Singularity is Near
In The Singularity is Near, Ray Kurzweil puts forth an idea. It’s a basic idea, something every person on this planet is able to grasp. Yet at the same time it’s a mindset changing idea, an idea so big that most people can’t get their head around it.
These notes were published in 2018 and discuss Kurzweil’s forecasts about technological growth as presented in the book at that time.
In The Singularity is Near, Ray Kurzweil puts forth an idea. It’s a basic idea, something every person on this planet is able to grasp. Yet at the same time it’s a mindset changing idea, an idea so big that most people can’t get their head around it.
The idea is about growth.
Moore’s Law
Exponential Growth
The Difficult Part
Understanding it for ourselves. Growth of machine learning, general AI, mars (musk on wait but why). Don’t know, very curious where we end up.