The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

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I quite enjoyed this mostly-mindblowing, but occasionally not-quite-there book. It's eye-opening, hopeful, enlightening, and terrifying.

Kurzweil covers the same ground as he did in THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR, but updates it with the progress we've made in the twenty years since.

While I find much of what he talks about absolutely fascinating and hopeful, I do fear that, while he has his finger on the pulse of the emerging technology of AI and the advancements it will bring, he woefully underestimates the human factor, either from the abject fear that many have against AI, but also from those in control (I'm thinking CEOs, governing regulatory bodies, as well as boneheaded politicians who often can't get their head out of a particular hole on their body, or a particular book of holy writ), who will be very good at throwing a cavalcade of wrenches into the works.

Still, overall, a really good read.

“The Singularity is Nearer” is Ray Kurzweil’s follow-up book to “The Singularity is Near.” In that book, he focused on the advances that will help humanity transcend biological constraints: synthetic biology. He focused on nanobots and how they will help humans improve their immunity and possibly live longer.
This book focuses on artificial intelligence and how the advances happening in this field are fast enough to make the singularity seem closer. Ray Kurzweil’s definition of singularity is that point where the advances in ‘technology’ are so rapid that they blur the lines between nature and technology. However, according to his definition, ‘technology’ refers to fields like data mining, nanotechnology, information, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology. He is not referring to technologies like steelmaking.
From another perspective, it is where ‘machine intelligence’ outstrips ‘human intelligence.’
This book is much more accessible than his earlier book but stresses the validity of his earlier claims. Deep Mind, the company created AlphaGo, which defeated the world’s top Go masters. Then, they created AlphaGo Zero, which started learning Go from scratch, defeating Alpha Go.
It is impossible to refute his claims. However, we can challenge his unbridled optimism. Ray Kurzweil remains convinced nanobots will help us live longer, maybe for centuries, and he envisages a world where long-lived humans will live in real worlds, augmented reality and virtual reality. In his view, such a life will help us live fulfilling lives, a claim yet to be tested.
Further, he believes a self-learning AI system will train itself to be benevolent. However, if the initial inputs contain seeds of malice, can we train this super-intelligent entity to be a gentle soul? Here, I believe he contradicts himself because while he exhorts us not to take the past as an indicator of future behavior, he states that humanity will not create evil machines because we have not detonated nuclear bombs since World War II! The genocide in Gaza, the war in Ukraine, and other horrible events happening now do not support his optimism, so read his sunny predictions with caution.
Advances in synthetic biology may help us lengthen our life spans. If we ignore any attendant philosophical questions, won’t technological advances make the first generation of cyborg humans redundant in record time? Apple Computer launched its M1 chips a few years back and launched its fourth generation M4 chips. They are building obsolescence into their products even as I write this review.
Ray Kurzweil ignores the distinct possibility of humans dying because of technological obsolescence. While we must be optimistic, it is better to be realistic. The book ignores the impact of all these changes on global society, including the animal and plant kingdom.
If we must play God, we must first gain wisdom.
Read the book: it is imperative to do so because we must understand what is happening and gain an inkling of the possible future of humanity, if not the planet.

Impact of AI. I would say this OS basically a very optimistic book. It outlines many foreseeable changes in our near future and considers their impact. Perhaps the most interesting and most problematic is the development of direct computer brain implants. Will they achieve the extension of human intelligence suggested. I guess we hang on and enjoy the ride. Perhaps his most mature book in the sense of thoughtful reflections on the issues.

AI is at the forefront of the technological changes that are coming. Unlike other breakthroughs this one is accompanied with a plethora of potential problems unlike any other technological breakthroughs have ever faced. This one might not be controlled by humans. That is the scary part. Kurzweill is obviously already in possession of a big brain and he saying that all of ours will get bigger because of AI. It will impact everything. The book is a little wonky in the beginning but once he gets into the benefits it gets interesting. His attention to the perils takes up a lot less space than the benefits. As many others have pointed out the path to success with AI will have many hurdles beside the technology and its implementation. I foresee many roadblock being thrown up by the naysayers but hopefully the best minds will be there for the implementation. This is a worthwhile book for everyone to read because this is easily the most hyped technological change that we have ever experienced. Let's just hope the really bad guys don't get there first.