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The Age of Intelligent Machines
The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life
The Age of Spiritual Machines
Fantastic Voyage (with Terry Grossman, MD)
The Singularity Is Near
Transcend (with Terry Grossman, MD)
How to Create a Mind
Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine
A Chronicle of Ideas
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The Age of Intelligent Machines
The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life
The Age of Spiritual Machines
Fantastic Voyage (with Terry Grossman, MD)
The Singularity Is Near
Transcend (with Terry Grossman, MD)
How to Create a Mind
Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine
A Chronicle of Ideas
,
, VIKING
An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
penguinrandomhouse.com
Copyright © 2024 by Ray Kurzweil
Penguin Random House supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices,
promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of
this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any
part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin Random
House to continue to publish books for every reader.
Diagrams on this page, this page, this page, this page, and this page from A New Kind of Science by
Stephen Wolfram (pages 56, 23–27, 31). Copyright © 2002 by Stephen Wolfram, LLC. Used with
permission of Wolfram Media, wolframscience.com/nks. Graphic on this page used with permission
of Gallup, Inc. (news.gallup.com/poll/1603/crime.aspx); this page used with permission of Lazard,
Inc. Photo on this page of VertiCrop System by Wikimedia Commons user Valcenteu via CC BY 3.0
(creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/); this page FDA photo by Michael J. Ermarth.
library of congress cataloging-in-publication data
Names: Kurzweil, Ray, author.
Title: The singularity is nearer : when we merge with AI / Ray Kurzweil.
Description: [New York] : Viking, [2024]. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023051391 (print) | LCCN 2023051392 (ebook) | ISBN 9780399562761
(hardcover) | ISBN 9780399562778 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593489413 (international edition) |
Subjects: LCSH: Brain—Evolution. | Human evolution. | Genetics. | Nanotechnology. | Robotics.
Classification: LCC QP376 .K853 2024 (print) | LCC QP376 (ebook) | DDC 612.8/2—
dc23/eng/20240311
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023051391
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023051392
Ebook ISBN 9780399562778
Cover design: Pete Garceau
Cover image: Ali Shahgholi / Getty Images
Designed by Cassandra Garruzzo Mueller, adapted for ebook by Cora Wigen
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