Ray Kurzweil: The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence

How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence

One of the eminent AI pioneers, Ray Kurzweil, has created a new book to explain the true nature of intelligence, both biological and non-biological. The book describes the human brain as a machine that can understand hierarchical concepts ranging from the form of a chair to the nature of humor. His important insights emphasize the key role of learning both in the brain and AI. He provides a credible roadmap for achieving the goal of super human intelligence which will be necessary to solve the grand challenges of humanity."

Kurzweil’s new book on the mind is magnificent, timely, and solidly argued!! His best so far!" – MARVIN MINSKY,


MIT Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, Cofounder of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, widely regarded as the "father of artificial intelligence."

Kurzweil’s book is a shining example of his prodigious ability to synthesize ideas from disparate domains and explain them to readers in simple, elegant language. Just like Chanute’s Progress in Flying Machines ushered in the era of aviation over a century ago, this book is the harbinger of the coming revolution in artificial intelligence that will fulfill Kurzweil’s own prophecies about it." - Dileep George,

AI scientist, pioneer of hierarchical models of the neocortex, Co-Founder of Numenta and Vicarious Systems.

One of the eminent AI pioneers, Ray Kurzweil, has created a new book to explain the true nature of intelligence, both biological and non-biological. The book describes the human brain as a machine that can understand hierarchical concepts ranging from the form of a chair to the nature of humor. His important insights emphasize the key role of learning both in the brain and AI. He provides a credible roadmap for achieving the goal of super human intelligence which will be necessary to solve the grand challenges of humanity." – RAJ REDDY,Founding director, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, recipient of the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.
…Ray's new book is a clear and compelling overview of the progress, especially in learning, that is enabling this revolution in the technologies of intelligence. It also offers important insights into a future in which we will begin solving what I believe is the greatest problem in science and technology today: the problem of how the brain works and of how it generates intelligence." – Tomaso Poggio

It is rare to find a book that offers unique and inspiring content on every page. How to Create a Mind achieves that and more. Ray has a way of tackling seemingly overwhelming challenges with an army of reason, in the end convincing the reader that it is within our reach to create nonbiological intelligence that will soar past our own. This is a visionary work that is also accessible and entertaining." – RAFAEL REIF,


President of MIT, MIT Maseeh Professor of Emerging Technology, former MIT Provost, former department head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), MIT’s largest academic department.


If you have ever wondered about how your mind works, read this book. Kurzweil’s insights reveal key secrets underlying human thought and our ability to recreate it. This is an eloquent and thought-provoking work." – DEAN KAMEN,


Physicist and inventor of the first wearable insulin pump, the HomeChoice portable dialysis machine, and the IBOT mobility system, and founder of FIRST; recipient of the National Medal of Technology.