奇点更近:当我们与人工智能融合 The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 448 pages

Publisher:Penguin Putnam Inc

Imprint:Viking Press Inc

Edition:International ed

ISBN:9780593489413

Published:25 Jun 2024

Dimensions:228 x 152 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这位知名发明家和未来学家在其里程碑式著作《奇点临近》之后的著作探讨了未来几十年技术将如何重塑人类

自 2005 年首次出版以来，雷·库兹韦尔的《奇点临近》及其对未来的展望在引发全球运动方面发挥了重要作用，吸引了数百万粉丝，出版了数百本书，推出了许多大片（《她》、《超体》、《机械姬》）和数千篇文章。在接下来的十年里，库兹韦尔关于技术进步的许多预测都得到了证实，而它们的可行性也通过如今已很常见的人工智能、智能机器和生物工程等概念为公众所熟知。

在这本全新的书中，雷·库兹韦尔为奇点的进步带来了全新的视角——评估了他的许多预测的进展，并研究了在不久的将来将带来知识革命和人类潜能扩展的新进展。他讨论的主题包括利用纳米机器人等设备逐个原子地重建世界；大幅延长寿命，超越目前 120 岁的年龄上限；利用云端的非生物智能扩展生物能力，重塑智能；随着贫困和暴力等领域的减少，生活如何改善；以及可再生能源和 3D 打印等技术的发展，这些技术可以应用于从服装到建筑材料再到人体器官的生长等各个领域。他还考虑了生物技术、纳米技术和人工智能的潜在危险，包括当前争议的话题，例如人工智能将如何影响失业和自动驾驶汽车的安全，以及“来世”技术，该技术将通过数据和 DNA 的结合使已故的人复活。

The noted inventor and futurist's successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will refashion the human race in the decades to come

Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near and its vision of the future have been influential in spawning a worldwide movement with millions of followers, hundreds of books, major films (Her, Lucy), and thousands of articles. During the succeeding decade many of Kurzweil's predictions about technological advancements have been borne out, and their viability has become familiar to the public through such now commonplace concepts as AI, intelligent machines, and bioengineering.

In this entirely new book Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances in the singularity-assessing the progress of many of his predictions and examining the novel advancements that, in the near future, will bring a revolution in knowledge and an expansion of human potential. 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 expanding biological capacity with nonbiological intelligence in the cloud; how life is improving with declines in areas such as poverty and violence; and the growth of technologies such as renewable energy and 3-D printing, which can be applied to everything from clothes to building materials to growing human organs. He also considers the potential perils of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, including such topics of current controversy as how AI will impact unemployment and the safety of autonomous cars, and "After Life" technology, which will reanimate people who have passed away through a combination of data and DNA.

作者简介

雷蒙德·库兹韦尔（生于 1948 年 2 月 12 日）是美国作家、计算机科学家、发明家和未来学家。除了未来主义，他还涉足光学字符识别 (OCR)、文本转语音合成、语音识别技术和电子键盘乐器等领域。他撰写过有关健康、人工智能 (AI)、超人类主义、技术奇点和未来主义的书籍。库兹韦尔是未来主义和超人类主义运动的公共倡导者，并发表公开演讲，分享他对延长寿命技术以及纳米技术、机器人技术和生物技术未来的乐观看法。

Raymond Kurzweil ( born February 12, 1948) is an American author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist. Aside from futurism, he is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Kurzweil is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements, and gives public talks to share his optimistic outlook on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology.