Rapture for the Geeks : When AI Outsmarts IQ

from dmcolon

Richard Dooling's Rapture for the Geeks didn't exactly capture my attention when I first started reading it. It seemed to be a somewhat pedestrian narrative of artificial intelligence. Having recently finished Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near, this book seemed to be a pale shadow of that tome. ...

from mvleeuwen

Singularity... when will it come? The author has really done a great job writing a book about Singulariy in an understandable and joyful way. The wink on the cover might mean that the book is also readably by non-geeks. That's a compliment when talking about - a kind of geeky subject - Singulariy!

from Bibliotecaboy

An interesting book that while the author goes where many have gone before in relation to the Technological Singularity, explores the topic with simplicity and a large dose of humour. Read this book as an introduction to the Singularity and then go explore the Subject further

from rmagahiz

I thought it would be amusing to read this book about the technological singularity from ten years ago. Unfortunately, it was not so. His allusions to cutting-edge tech from that era is just about as cringe inducing as his humor larded all throughout his book (some of it in Python code). It looke...