Dec 2, 2022
In "How to Create a Mind, The Secret of Human Thought Revealed,"
futurist and author Ray Kurzweil explores the limitless potential
of reverse engineering the human brain.
Ray Kurzweil is arguably today's most influential—and often
controversial—futurist. In "How to Create a Mind," Kurzweil
presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in
human-machine civilization—reverse engineering the human brain to
understand precisely how it works and using that knowledge to
create even more intelligent machines. Kurzweil discusses how the
brain functions, how the mind emerges from the brain, and the
implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence in
addressing the world's problems. He thoughtfully examines emotional
and moral intelligence and the origins of consciousness while
envisioning the radical possibilities of our merging with the
intelligent technology we are creating.
A prolific inventor, Kurzweil was the principal developer of the
first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character
recognition software, the first print-to-speech reading machine for
the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music
synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other
orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed
large-vocabulary speech recognition software.
Originally published in November of 2012.
Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.