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The Age of Spiritual Machines
- When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
- ナレーター: Alan Sklar
- 再生時間: 3 時間 34 分
- カテゴリー: 政治学・社会科学, 社会科学
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Superintelligence
- Paths, Dangers, Strategies
- 著者: Nick Bostrom
- ナレーター: Napoleon Ryan
- 再生時間: 14 時間 17 分
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Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. If machine brains surpassed human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become extremely powerful - possibly beyond our control.
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Our Final Invention
- Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
- 著者: James Barrat
- ナレーター: Gary Dana
- 再生時間: 9 時間 16 分
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Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the "smart" in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and transportation infrastructure. But Artificial Intelligence can also threaten our existence. In as little as a decade, AI could match and then surpass human intelligence. Corporations and government agencies are pouring billions into achieving AI’s Holy Grail - human-level intelligence.
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Abundance
- The Future Is Better Than You Think
- 著者: Steven Kotler, Peter H. Diamandis
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 10 時間 22 分
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We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman, and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces our near-term future, where exponentially growing technologies and three other powerful forces are conspiring to better the lives of billions of people. This book is an antidote to pessimism by tech-entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler.
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Bold
- How to Go Big, Make Bank, and Better the World
- 著者: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- ナレーター: Steven Kotler
- 再生時間: 9 時間 7 分
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Bold is a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth while also positively impacting the lives of billions.
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The Fabric of Reality
- The Science of Parallel Universes - and Its Implications
- 著者: David Deutsch
- ナレーター: Walter Dixon
- 再生時間: 14 時間 26 分
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Author of the New York Times best seller The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch, explores the four most fundamental strands of human knowledge: quantum physics, and the theories of knowledge, computation, and evolution - and their unexpected connections. Taken together, these four strands reveal a deeply integrated, rational, and optimistic worldview. It describes a unified fabric of reality that is objective and comprehensible, in which human action and thought are central.
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Awareness
- Conversations with the Masters
- 著者: Anthony de Mello
- ナレーター: Anthony De Mello
- 再生時間: 7 時間 26 分
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Awareness awakens you to the truth that you possess everything you need right now to be happy and fulfilled. Happiness is your natural state. You don't need to do anything to acquire it; you only need to drop something. This audiobook shows you what that is. There is not a single person who ever gave time to being aware who’s quality of life didn't change. You see life differently because you are different. You respond to people and situations differently. You see things you have never seen before. Beautiful things. You're much more energetic, much more alive.
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Superintelligence
- Paths, Dangers, Strategies
- 著者: Nick Bostrom
- ナレーター: Napoleon Ryan
- 再生時間: 14 時間 17 分
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Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. If machine brains surpassed human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become extremely powerful - possibly beyond our control.
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Our Final Invention
- Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
- 著者: James Barrat
- ナレーター: Gary Dana
- 再生時間: 9 時間 16 分
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Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the "smart" in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and transportation infrastructure. But Artificial Intelligence can also threaten our existence. In as little as a decade, AI could match and then surpass human intelligence. Corporations and government agencies are pouring billions into achieving AI’s Holy Grail - human-level intelligence.
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Abundance
- The Future Is Better Than You Think
- 著者: Steven Kotler, Peter H. Diamandis
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 10 時間 22 分
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We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman, and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces our near-term future, where exponentially growing technologies and three other powerful forces are conspiring to better the lives of billions of people. This book is an antidote to pessimism by tech-entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler.
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Bold
- How to Go Big, Make Bank, and Better the World
- 著者: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- ナレーター: Steven Kotler
- 再生時間: 9 時間 7 分
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Bold is a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth while also positively impacting the lives of billions.
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The Fabric of Reality
- The Science of Parallel Universes - and Its Implications
- 著者: David Deutsch
- ナレーター: Walter Dixon
- 再生時間: 14 時間 26 分
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Author of the New York Times best seller The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch, explores the four most fundamental strands of human knowledge: quantum physics, and the theories of knowledge, computation, and evolution - and their unexpected connections. Taken together, these four strands reveal a deeply integrated, rational, and optimistic worldview. It describes a unified fabric of reality that is objective and comprehensible, in which human action and thought are central.
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Awareness
- Conversations with the Masters
- 著者: Anthony de Mello
- ナレーター: Anthony De Mello
- 再生時間: 7 時間 26 分
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Awareness awakens you to the truth that you possess everything you need right now to be happy and fulfilled. Happiness is your natural state. You don't need to do anything to acquire it; you only need to drop something. This audiobook shows you what that is. There is not a single person who ever gave time to being aware who’s quality of life didn't change. You see life differently because you are different. You respond to people and situations differently. You see things you have never seen before. Beautiful things. You're much more energetic, much more alive.
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The Power of Discipline
- How to Use Self Control and Mental Toughness to Achieve Your Goals
- 著者: Daniel Walter
- ナレーター: Russell Newton
- 再生時間: 3 時間 15 分
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Before you can achieve anything in life, you need a solid foundation of self-discipline. Talent, intelligence, and skill are only a part of the equation. Positive thinking, affirmations, and vision boards are only a part of the equation. If you want to turn your dreams into reality, you need self-discipline. Self-discipline is what will keep you focused when all hell is breaking loose, and it looks like you are one step away from failure.
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LSD and the Mind of the Universe
- Diamonds from Heaven
- 著者: Christopher M. Bache, Ervin Laszlo - foreword
- ナレーター: Christopher M. Bache
- 再生時間: 14 時間 11 分
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Journey alongside professor Bache as he touches the living intelligence of our universe - an intelligence that both embraced and crushed him - and demonstrates how direct experience of the divine can change your perspective on core issues in philosophy and religion. Chronicling his 73 sessions, the author reveals the spiral of death and rebirth that took him through the collective unconscious into the creative intelligence of the universe.
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The Future of Humanity
- Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond
- 著者: Michio Kaku
- ナレーター: Feodor Chin
- 再生時間: 12 時間 22 分
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Future of Humanity by Michio Kaku, read by Feodor Chin. Human civilisation is on the verge of spreading beyond Earth. More than a possibility, it is becoming a necessity: whether our hand is forced by climate change and resource depletion or whether future catastrophes compel us to abandon Earth, one day we will make our homes among the stars.
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
- Why Violence Has Declined
- 著者: Steven Pinker
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 36 時間 39 分
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Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence.
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The Inevitable
- Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
- 著者: Kevin Kelly
- ナレーター: George Newbern
- 再生時間: 11 時間 30 分
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From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the 12 technological imperatives that will shape the next 30 years and transform our lives. Much of what will happen in the next 30 years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In this fascinating, provocative new book, Kevin Kelly provides an optimistic road map for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives - from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture.
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
- 著者: Julian Jaynes
- ナレーター: James Patrick Cronin
- 再生時間: 16 時間 1 分
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At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes' still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only 3,000 years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion - and indeed our future.
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Behave
- 著者: Robert M Sapolsky
- ナレーター: Michael Goldstrom
- 再生時間: 26 時間 27 分
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We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other? Every act of human behaviour has multiple layers of causation, spiralling back seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, even centuries, right back to the dawn of time and the origins of our species. In the epic sweep of history, how does our biology affect the arc of war and peace, justice and persecution? How have our brains evolved alongside our cultures?
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The Soul of a New Machine
- 著者: Tracy Kidder
- ナレーター: Ben Sullivan
- 再生時間: 9 時間 3 分
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Computers have changed since 1981, when Tracy Kidder memorably recorded the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market. What has not changed is the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the go-for-broke approach to business that has caused so many computer companies to win big (or go belly up), and the cult of pursuing mind-bending technological innovations.
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back
- The Evolution of Minds
- 著者: Daniel C. Dennett
- ナレーター: Tom Perkins
- 再生時間: 15 時間 44 分
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What is human consciousness, and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. From Bacteria to Bach and Back is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in surprising directions, exploring the deep interactions of evolution, brains, and human culture.
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A World Without Work
- Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
- 著者: Daniel Susskind
- ナレーター: Daniel Susskind
- 再生時間: 9 時間 56 分
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From mechanical looms to the combustion engine to the first computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. But as Daniel Susskind demonstrates, this time really is different. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds of jobs are increasingly at risk.
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2030
- How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
- 著者: Mauro F. Guillen
- ナレーター: Leon Nixon
- 再生時間: 10 時間 33 分
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The world is changing drastically before our eyes - will you be prepared for what comes next? A groundbreaking analysis from one of the world's foremost experts on global trends, including analysis on how COVID-19 will amplify and accelerate each of these changes. By 2030: there will be more grandparents than grandchildren; the middle class in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa will outnumber the US and Europe combined; the global economy will be driven by the non-Western consumer for the first time in modern history; and much more....
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H Is for Hawk
- 著者: Helen Macdonald
- ナレーター: Helen Macdonald
- 再生時間: 11 時間 6 分
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When Helen MacDonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer captivated by hawks since childhood, she'd never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators: the goshawk. But in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral anger mirrored her own.
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Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework for envisioning the 21st century - an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live.
Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future takes us through the advances that inexorably result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain by the year 2020 (with human-level capabilities not far behind); in relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers; and in information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways. Optimistic and challenging, thought-provoking and engaging, The Age of Spiritual Machines is the ultimate guide on our road into the next century.
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- Ryan
- 2012/03/07
An optimistic map to technological transcendence
In this short, readable book, Kurzweil pitches the idea of the Singularity to mainstream readers. As a software developer with a strong interest in artificial intelligence, evolution, and neuroscience, I think that his claims and their stunning implications are right. At least, in a broad sense. We are not far from a world in which machines will begin to exhibit intelligence approaching -- and, in some areas, surpassing -- the minds of human beings. Though, at first, such systems will require much direct guidance and management from us, they will become ever more autonomous. They will thrive as members of vast, interconnected, evolving software ecosystem, supported by an immense, powerful, and exponentially growing base of computing hardware.
With the rise artificial intelligence, new physical technology will become possible, enabling machines to begin to become part of us. In a few decades (maybe a century), our brains and bodies will probably have the ability to interface directly with computer systems and nanobots that augment them; in a few decades more, our physical human bodies might no longer be necessary, and we will be able to exist solely as software entities, life forms in a reality that can’t be imagined right now.
It’s mind-blowing, paradigm-imploding stuff, but I’ve thought about the same ideas at great length, and I think that Kurzweil’s reasoning is quite clear and sound. Given what we know about the workings of “intelligence” as represented by the human brain, there’s no obvious reason that science won’t be able to map out its essential processes or computer hardware and software to realize something equivalent to them.
If you need proof of the man’s credibility, note that this book was written in 1999, then check out chapter 3, where he makes predictions of how technology will look in 2009 and years beyond. Granted, many of his forecasts are a little too optimistic -- for example, a suit that provides an enjoyable simulation of sex isn’t going to happen by 2020 -- but his mind was definitely headed in the right direction. The coolest bits of "2009" future-gazing describe technologies that, if not here already (iPhone, anyone?), are getting close. Both in terms of physical realization and rapid public embrace.
However, I would criticize Kurzweil for being so breathless in his excitement, he doesn’t give much attention to the dark side of what he foresees. Certain areas of technology may follow an exponential growth track, but human understanding and social systems are another story. What will happen to the people who are left out of the leap forward, or don’t understand it, or are afraid of it? The ones who have no saleable skills in a world of robots? (Note that one of the few predictions for 2009 that Kurzweil gets drastically wrong is his rosy forecast for the global economy.)
Still, this is a very important book for the mainstream and I can tell you that technology and the concepts around it are developing just as Kurzweil said. The decades to come will be some of the most interesting in human history, and quite possibly the next step beyond human history.
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- Dave.Dolan
- 2017/10/04
too bad it's abridged
I loved the subject matter and the prescient predictions, but the backstory behind them was all chopped out of the book. This version, whittled down to the barest bones, could practically be a series of BuzzFeed articles instead. Sklar's performance was exemplary as always.
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- Jack
- 2012/01/03
Interesting Theories
Would you listen to The Age of Spiritual Machines again? Why?
This is one book worth multiple listens due to the theories laid out by Ray Kurzweil. There are many barriers to achieving the path he foresees for the human race and the path may meander. However, I can see the potential and each of the steps provide a set of ethics to chew over.
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- Sam
- 2016/04/20
interesting read but very short
I was definitely surprised when it ended abruptly.
The descriptions of neutral networks and evolutionarily algorithms were clear and educational.
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- Matt B
- 2011/01/12
Fascinating
Fascinating book to listen to, despite the fact that it was written 10 years. It was very interesting hearing Kurzweil's predictions for 2009 and comparing them to what has actually happened. Some of his predictions are spot on, while others are way off base. The book is a thought-provoking speculation on how the development of technology and artificial intelligence might shape our future.
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- Kindle me this:
- 2014/05/02
I liked it but I liked "How to Create a Mind" more
If you’ve listened to books by Ray Kurzweil before, how does this one compare?
I liked it but I liked "How to Create a Mind" more
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
no
Any additional comments?
I liked it but I liked "How to Create a Mind" more.
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- ThatGuyWithTheFace
- 2019/10/10
Love this Audiobook
Sad to see the book end. Amazing book, amazing and well spoken reader for the audiobook version.
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- Madeline Empson Taylor
- 2015/09/19
The mind is a beautiful thing!!
The future holds many wonderful and scary reveals and nothing is more frightening to me than AI gone wild!
AI can and will be a great ever life changing part of our lives contributing many beneficial shortcuts to a better life.
But....we know there is a dark side....
A very good look to the future of the human mind and the ever more capable machine!
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- Spyro Bogdanos
- 2020/09/13
Fascinating performance, exciting story.
It is pretty amazing, the accuracy with which Kurzweil predicted 15 years ago where we are today technologically. If you factor in a 5 to 10 year delay due to recession and pandemic, his predictions are almost completely accurate. I work in the tech industry and am passionate about it, so it is clear to me that Kurzweil has a gift for seeing how the seeds of technology will grow. The performance could not have been better by Alan Sklar. I hope to hear more from him.
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- Justin
- 2020/07/31
Outdated but still fascinating.
This is a good short read if you want to know where we are going.
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- Dr K
- 2019/04/14
As relevant today as when it was first written.
There are shades of Huxley in the predictions of Kurzweil. What looked like bold predictions for the first three decades of this century now look to be (almost but not entirely) inevitable. His influence on the (continuiing) development of the Googles, Facebooks and Amazons shouldn't be underestimated. Well worth the read and will be coming back soon.