New York Times | Hello, HAL (a book review)

November 3, 1999

New York Times — November 3, 1999 | Colin McGinn

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Three of these books provide a vivid window on the state of the art in artificial intelligence research, and offer provocative speculations on where we might be heading as the information age advances. Of the three, ”The Age of Spiritual Machines,” by Ray Kurzweil, is the best…. It gives you the most bits for your buck.