Title: Unabashed Fiction
Product review: You might as well have picked this up at a local Star Trek conference. As a Ph.D., and an active researcher in both artificial intelligence and cognitive science, I feel somewhat slighted that those of us who are trying to make real engineering progress in the AI arena are being represented by sensationalistic rubbish like this. It's widely accepted in the AI community that our entire research agenda will be made or broken by whether NP-complete problems will eventually be soluble. Kurzweil should go back and read up on Turing, especially his Ph.D. thesis. As for those who are looking for accurate predictions concerning the future of intelligent machines, look elsewhere. Take it from someone who knows, there's a LOT of work left to be done...and we don't even know what's doable yet.
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