This is the book which introduced me into the wonderful world of Artificial Intelligence.It introduces the underlying principles behind one of the most well used Machine Learning techniques called Neural Network, and even how it was deeply connected with the inventor of modern computing himself, ...
I'm not sure to be the right guy to review such a book. Why? I'd lie if I told that I understood everything Kurzweil explained in it. O.K. the author tried hard to make it more understandable: he put as much as possible in graphs and statistics, pictures, examples of the ordinary life and so on. ...
At times thought-provoking and intriguing, but ultimately unconvincing.The words of Douglas Hofstadter pretty much summarize what I think of this book: "it's a very bizarre mixture of ideas that are solid and good with ideas that are crazy. It's as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog...