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great collection
posted on 07/11/2003 5:52 PM by pietrocco

As usual, words cannot describe how good Ray really is...
Download the "reader" and re-read (and study!) Raymond's articles!

Re: The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 07/11/2003 6:58 PM by /:setAI

I would like to see more about the story of his old k 250 synthesizer! [and if he would create a VST plug-in version- unless Young Chang owns the right to the 250 as well as the Kurzweil name?]

and did he smoke a bowl with Stevie Wonder? =)

Re: The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 12/05/2003 2:36 PM by SkinnyDevil

I think Young Chang owns it all - lock, stock, & barrel. I don't have the old 250, but my main gun for composing is still my Kurzweil K-2000 (with all the bells-n-whistles!). It does stuff the new Korgs & Akais & Rolands & whatnot are just getting a handle on.

Regarding Stevie...I've never met Stevie, but I worked on several projects with his producer's assistent (who began producing also). I shouldn't mention whether or not I smoked anything at all with him until I check the statute of limitations, but we all had a BLAST in Memphis!

--
David M. McLean
Skinny Devil Music Lab

Re: The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 07/21/2003 5:15 AM by Mobius

Thanks Ray, for giving us the opportunity to download these. Very thought provoking as always! Future Classics.

Re: The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 07/21/2003 9:06 AM by AwayBBL

The problem with AI: The assumption that humans are intelligent. I think that true discovery comes not from intelligence, but rather from our mistakes.

Make an HTML version available?
posted on 08/07/2003 12:31 AM by sidney

I would like to see a download in the form of a zipped archive of the HTML "printable" format of the articles. That would be a lot smaller download and a lot easier to read, browse, and search than one big PDF file. With HTML I can adjust the font size and the formatting to match the size of the screen I am using at the time. PDF files are too good at simulating the printed page. They don't work nearly as well on a machine that is not built to simulate a printed book.


Of course I could look up all 30 articles on the web site and download the printable version of each myself, but would bet other people would like to have that choice of format too.

Re: The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 12/05/2003 10:15 AM by rogergrilo

This dossier is excelent, congratulations, Ray´s THE BEST!! Can´t wait for his next book... Does anybody know what is the best university for pursuing a doctoral degree on Ray´s ideas, specially the Singularity ?

Re: The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 07/04/2005 3:36 PM by bookmunkie

The Singularity is not an idea original to Ray Kurzweil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singula rity

Re: The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 07/05/2005 6:15 AM by rogergrilo

Thank you for the link, it is GREAT!

Re: The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 07/05/2005 7:19 AM by etaoinbe

http://www.kurzweilai.net/RayKurzweilReader.pdf

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Downloading The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 07/05/2005 11:50 AM by merovingian

Hi,

I tried to download the Kurzweil reader and it doesn't work. Can someone let me know when it's back up and running again? Thanks

-=Merovingian

Re: Downloading The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 07/05/2005 7:58 PM by meburke

Yeah, this site got slashdotted. It may be a couple of days before it's safe to open this link again. It says a grat deal about the respect Ray kurzweil has in the tech community.

Re: Downloading The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 07/06/2005 1:23 AM by johnnylambada

Just search for RayKurzweilReader.pdf on google -- it's out there

Re: The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 07/06/2005 6:17 PM by IMperfect

I think that one of the ingredients to intelligence that I have not seen mentioned in AI discussions (please let me know if you have see it) is imperfection.

AI will emerge once we are able to capture (in addition to the other ingredients) the right amount of imperfection in a computer.

The only problem with this is that we are not going to be able to impose any restraints (eg:Asimov's 3 rules of robotics) on true AI.

Only true AI will be able to evolve into the Singularity. Any other type of AI that would involve restraints, would come to a state in which the restraints would cause its evolution to halt.

Re: The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 07/06/2005 6:36 PM by eldras

I think i know what you mean...you're arguement may be heading for consciousness and i've thought about this a lot...good enought to define it anyhow.

Imperfection is randomness in consciousness eg consciousness defioned as the ability to act in freedom with a model of oneself and opne's world?


So free choice etc involves SOME element of spin the bottle.

Von Neuman didn't think randomness could be created.


But it's an interesting idea, can you eleaborate a bit

Cheers

Eldras

Re: The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 07/11/2005 4:22 PM by IMperfect

There are different levels of imperfection that I am referring to:

1. Organic imperfection: by this I mean the need-driven lifecycle of organisms. The basic need of an organism is to survive/replicate, all other needs - imho - are exponentially complex instantiations of that need. The imperfection is there is no way to completely satisfy a need. Part of intelligence exists as a method of controlling those needs.

2. Imperfection of senses: the lack of a complete immediate understanding(knowledge) of the environment led us(organisms) to develop intelligence. It led us to develop groups of cells to a state where they can fill in the blanks (intelligence)

In terms of the current state of AI, I think we have the second imperfection handled - with Neural Nets and such.

It's the first one that I don't know how it is being handled by people trying to develop AI. How do you impart basic needs (and intelligence to control those needs) on a machine?

In nature 1 came before 2. I think in AI we have been putting 2 before 1. Will that work? I don't know.

We might be building an extremelly optimized learning machine, but a machine none the less.

Maybe the only way to get to AI and the Singularity will be by achieving organism/machine symbiosis - I guess in which case the A does not really apply.

If anyone is taking votes, I would prefer the second option over the pure machine AI.

Re: The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 03/29/2009 1:47 AM by Pandemonium1323

Intelligence is a pearl, it begins with an irritation.

Re: The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 03/29/2009 2:40 AM by eldras

good pearl of wisdom Pan, but you may be prodding about budding in (Turing's) fractal theory.
(I'm just taking in the magnitude of what men do to we who dont conform and the enormity of his forced suicide as a crowd crime against the individual and against genius in general).

imperfection is not possible.

Irritation may be the first arrival of another event, a collapse of the universal wavelength to the copenhagenist or pairing of worlds to a many worldsist.

Things interact.

If they are good (defined as helpful to the group) they are deemed that.

I see the universe or at least our own cosmos as a kaleidoscope.

But that does nothing for existance-feeling as a transhumanist...or any kind of humanist.

We MUST measure from ourselves...however dynamic....

Arg! My intelligence is turning on and I want it switched off until I being my build and probably well into it.

Re: The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 03/29/2009 2:32 AM by eldras

I've thought about your imperfection idea IMperfect & it cant be a factor in my religion (Extropian). The cosmos...the universe cannot have and chance at all in it. In fact a I dispute imperfection could ever exist as it would have to lie outside laws in which case the universe could not exist.

Do you do differential geometry?

Re: The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 07/10/2005 6:19 PM by pb2qqq

Re: The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 07/10/2005 6:30 PM by pb2qqq

Re: The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 03/29/2009 1:03 AM by eldras

There are a lot of great ideas here. So many that I have to doubt any one person wrote them.

Ray Kurzweil is obviously a front name for a group of professors from MIT.

Re: The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 03/29/2009 2:44 AM by Pandemonium1323

Maybe Ray Kurzweil is an AI <grin>

Re: The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 03/29/2009 2:51 AM by eldras

I dont think it impossible given that A.I. is bound to have already been built in the infinite universe.

Re: The Ray Kurzweil Reader
posted on 03/29/2009 2:52 AM by eldras

It would be terrible if people believed that & he were kidnapped.