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The provided passages do not detail specific evidence the author offers to support his claims. They primarily describe the book's content, scope, and the author's background.
The passages state that "The Age of Intelligent Machines" probes the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence, examining its philosophical and mathematical roots, and its current frontier [1]. The book also delves into the history of efforts to understand human intelligence and emulate it with devices [1]. Additionally, it includes articles by various experts on contemporary issues in artificial intelligence [2]. However, the specific evidence used within the book is not presented.
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Title: The Age of Intelligent Machines by Ray Kurzweil Description: What is artificial intelligence? At its essence, it is another way of answering a central question that has been debated by scientists, philosophers, and theologians for thousands of How does the human brain - three pounds of ordinary matter - give rise to thought? With this question in mind, inventor and visionary computer scientist Raymond Kurzweil probes the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence, from its earliest philosophical and mathematical roots through today's moving frontier, to tantalizing glimpses…
by building devices that seem to act with human capabilities. Running alongside Kurzweil's historical and scientific narrative, are 23 articles examining contemporary issues in artificial intelligence by such luminaries as Daniel Dennett, Sherry Turkle, Douglas Hofstadter, Marvin Minsky, Seymour Papert, Edward Feigenbaum, Allen Newell, and George Gilder. Raymond Kurzweil is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Kurzweil Music Systems, and the Kurzweil Reading Machines division of Xerox. He was the principal developer of the first print-to-speech…