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This is very interesting book from Ray Kurzweil , A futurist, inventor and author. Its fascinating to imagine the role of GNR(Genetics, Nano and Robot AI) in the future. You can refer his 6 Epochs of evolution here . Image courtesy: Bing AI image generator Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. When scientists become a million times more intelligent and operate a million times faster, an hour would result in a century of progress (in today's terms). There are no hard problems, only problems that are hard to certain level of intelligence. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. There are three great philosophical questions. What is life? what is consciousness and thinking and memory and all that ? and how does the universe work ? The good news is that our lives have purpose; the bad news is that their purpose is to help some remote hacker estimate pi to nine jillion deci

 Quotes from "My Journey Home" Within you, without you According to our surroundings and experiences, we have a particular perception of reality. When passion is frustrated, people lose all good sense. The nature of the mind is to interpret nonessentials essential. The mind creates artificial needs, believing it cannot live without them. In this way we carry a great burden of attachments through our life. Where there is faith, fear cannot exist. You may have to leave the geographical boundaries of India. However, you never have to leave Bharata, the spirit of India within. Saintly personality can be softer than a rose or harder than a thunderbolt. Quotes from "The Dark Net" Normal person + anonymity + audience = Total Fuckwad For every starry-eyed vision of future utopias there was an equally vividly dystopian nightmare The idea that technology is neutral, just a tool, is plain wrong. That's never been the case. It embodies basic choices and values of any societ

Please don't be mislead by the title, its a book on AI. If you are wondering why the book is named like this, Author is a researcher trying to teach AI on generating "pick up lines". Thats the pickup line AI came up with 😀 . This is one of the best books I read so far on AI. Here are some quotes from the book: Programming an AI is almost more like teaching a child than programming a computer. The question AI is answering is not "what is the best solution?" but "What would the humans have done ?" The narrower the AI, the smarter it seems. The human brain is a neural network made of eighty-six billion neural networks. Most of the times, what we asked AI to do isn't what we actually wanted them to do. Give AI a goal - data to imitate or a reward function to maximize and they'll do it, whether or not they've actually solved your problem. On December 2017, Google maps directed cars toward neighborhoods that were on fire. It wan't trying to

Here are some quotes from the book "The Inevitable". Author Kevin Kelley talks about the 12 factors that are going to shape the world: Flowing, sharing, tracking, accessing, interacting, screening, remixing, filtering, Cognifying, questioning, and becoming. We cannot expand ourself, and our collective self, without making holes in our heart. A world without discomfort is utopia. Protopia is a state of becoming, rather than a destination. One study a few years ago found that only 40 percent of the web is commercially manufactured. The rest is fueled by duty or passion. By 2026, Google's main product will not be search but AI. AI is akin to building a rocket ship. You need a huge engine and a lot of fuel. The rocket engine is the learning algorithms but the fuel is the huge amounts of data we can feed to these algorithms. The most important thing to know about thinking machines is that they will think different. So we'll get this network of locally franchised factories,