How to Create a Mind

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"How to Create a Mind" is a nonfiction book by futurist Ray Kurzweil that explores the workings of human intelligence and proposes designs for advanced artificial intelligence based on the brain’s principles.

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instanceOf book about artificial intelligence
cognitive science book
nonfiction book
advocates reverse engineering the human brain
aimsTo guide the design of advanced artificial intelligence
provide a theory of how the human mind works
argues AI can surpass human intelligence
human intelligence is based on pattern recognition
the neocortex uses a repeated algorithm
author Ray Kurzweil
compares biological brains and digital computers
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
describes how the brain processes patterns
similarities between human and machine intelligence
structure of the neocortex
genre artificial intelligence
nonfiction
popular science
technology
hasPart case studies of existing AI systems
discussion of Turing test
discussion of consciousness
discussion of free will
discussion of future AI applications
discussion of hierarchical hidden Markov models
influencedBy neuroscience research on the neocortex
pattern recognition algorithms
ISBN 978-0670025299
language English
mediaType audiobook
ebook
print
notableFor linking brain science to AI engineering
popularizing pattern recognition theory of mind
proposesConcept hierarchical pattern recognition in neocortex
pattern recognition theory of mind
publicationDate 2012
publisher Penguin Books
The Viking Press
surface form: Viking Press
relatedWork The Age of Spiritual Machines
The Singularity Is Near
subject artificial intelligence
brain modeling
cognitive science
future of AI
human intelligence
machine learning
neuroscience
pattern recognition

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Ray Kurzweil notableWork How to Create a Mind
The Singularity Is Near followedBy How to Create a Mind