The age of intelligent machines is a non fiction book about artificial intelligence by inventor and futurist ray kurzweilthis was his first book and the association of american publishers named it the most outstanding computer science book of 1990 it was reviewed in the new york times and the christian science monitorthe format is a combination of monograph and anthology with contributed . In the age of intelligent machines inventor and visionary computer scientist raymond kurzweil probes the past present and future of artificial intelligence from its earliest philosophical and mathematical roots to tantalizing glimpses of 21st century machines with superior intelligence and truly prodigious speed and memory generously illustrated and easily accessible to the nonspecialist . The age of intelligent machines data has shape shape has meaning 1997 deep blue bests garry kasparov 2004 spirit opportunity explore mars 2010 darpa invests 10m in ayasdi to explore topological analytics in machine intelligence1 85up to performance improvement ayasdi pushes the boundaries of machine intelligence 1 source ayasdi. About forty years ago at the dawn of the computer age turing began a classic article computing machinery and intelligence with the words i propose to consider the question can machines think but he then went on to say that this was a bad question a question that leads only to sterile debate and haggling over definitions