New Popular Science Books discussion

Just finished reading the new book by Ray Kurzweil called How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed. The book charts the progress of artificial intelligence, and points up how these machines are already operating according to the same principles as our brains. As our understanding of the brain continues to advances, Kurzweil argues, we will be able to use this knowledge to build machines that are ever more human-like--until, eventually, our machines will achieve human-level intelligence, and beyond. I've written a full executive summary of the book available here: http://newbooksinbrief.com/2012/11/27...

Cheers,
Aaron