Comments on: New York Times bestseller: Ray Kurzweil’s How to Create a Mind

By: Ron Feigenblatt

Ron Feigenblatt — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:00:18 +0000

Last evening I quickly read this wonderful book on the Kindle of a visiting friend. I am blown away by its assertion that neocortex architecture largely consists of 100-neuron modules which act as primitive general-purpose pattern-recognition atoms and link with peers in hierarchies to create the mind! But what is the functional significance of the 60,000-neuron cortical columns? And what a pity that the chart on the transistor count of microprocessors makes numerous (and obvious) errors in transcribing Intel’s cited source. Is it the only chart with mistakes? Is there a Web page for errata?

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:59:07 +0000

Hm… Still haven’t received my copy of the book, I wrote a mail to sreed@kurzweiltech.com and still no reply… oh well.. I really wanted to read it though, Ray is one of the few that talks about things that I’ve sorta felt are inevitable since a little boy. Cheers:)

By: Editor

Editor — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 03:02:47 +0000

Michael: please contact sreed@kurzweiltech.com

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 23:10:28 +0000

I received my t-shirt but no book as yet…

By: Nehluxhes

Nehluxhes — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:10:11 +0000

Email sent, thanks for your help!

By: sblack

sblack — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:13:28 +0000

PS — If you could please e-mail SReed@KurzweilTech.com with your reply e-mail address for a response that would be terrific, thanks! –Sarah

By: sblack

sblack — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:12:26 +0000

Thanks for your inquiry which we’ve forwarded directly to customer support for the book; you should receive a response shortly. –Sarah Black (Managing Editor)

By: Harry Manback

Harry Manback — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:39:38 +0000

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:51:33 +0000

Congradulations to Ray Kurzweil — he deserves every praise he gets :).

By: Nehluxhes

Nehluxhes — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:42:10 +0000

Speaking of which, I still haven’t received mine, I just got the T-shirt (and american ‘L’ is…well way larger than where I live :D but well, wasn’t really planning to wearing it anyway)

Is there some problems with oversea shippings?

By: DCWhatthe

DCWhatthe — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:57:22 +0000

This is what happens when the topics you choose to pursue and write about, happen to be relevant to most of humanity.

By: richiemobile

richiemobile — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:09:09 +0000

I can’t wait to read it!

By: GAUSS

GAUSS — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:47:35 +0000

Many congratulations to Mr. Kurzweil and the Kurzweil AI team. Having received my copy of the book a week ago, I’m already 75% of the way through it. It’s definitely going to warrant a second reading, and many more yet.

By: Sally Morem

Sally Morem — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:12:50 +0000

Congrats!

By: Jason Adair

Jason Adair — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:55:25 +0000

Congratulations Mr. Kurzweil! =o)

By: eldras

eldras — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:54:53 +0000

Fantastic! Well done! What an ambassador for high tech. This book alone will cause 100′s pf millions in investment capital to be proffered A.I. is exploding everywhere after a long A.I. Winter. The EU is with it’s trillions is eying A.I. projects at last.

As this accelerates hopefully we can pick up the old, the weak the poor and the dead.

eldras

https://sites.google.com/site/quantumarchaeology/

By: ProfessorZ

ProfessorZ — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:35:10 +0000

Congrats!!!! Awesome book, I’ve been reading it over the weekend

By: MrFriendly

MrFriendly — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:51:47 +0000

Congrats, Ray. :)