La era de las máquinas espirituales The Age of Spiritual Machines
The year was 1999. The world was panicking about Y2K, terrified that when the clock struck midnight, the digital backbone of civilization would snap. But in a quiet study in Newton, Massachusetts, Ray Kurzweil was looking past the glitch. He was looking at the spark. ray kurzweil la era de las maquinas espirituales pdf
At the core of Kurzweil’s argument lies the “Law of Accelerating Returns,” an extension of Moore’s Law. He posits that technological progress is exponential, not linear. While our intuition expects change at the pace of our recent past, Kurzweil demonstrates that each new generation of technology provides the tools to create the next, more powerful generation at an ever-increasing rate. He charts this from the abacus to the mechanical calculators of the 19th century, to the vacuum tubes of the early 20th century, and finally to the integrated circuits that double in power every two years. By extrapolating this curve, Kurzweil confidently predicts that by the late 2020s, $1,000 worth of computing will possess the raw processing power of a single human brain—about 20 million billion calculations per second. La era de las máquinas espirituales The Age
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Basándose en una evolución de la Ley de Moore, predijo que la potencia de los ordenadores se duplicaría en intervalos cada vez más cortos. Superación biológica: He was looking at the spark