Bibliograph

Talking to robots, tales from our human-robot futures, David Ewing Duncan

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Talking to robots, tales from our human-robot futures, David Ewing Duncan

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Talking to robots

Oclc number

1060195343

Responsibility statement

David Ewing Duncan

Sub title

tales from our human-robot futures

Summary

What robot and AI systems are being built and imagined right now? What do they say about us, their creators? Will they usher in a fantastic new future, or destroy us? What do some of our greatest thinkers, from physicist Brian Greene and futurist Kevin Kelly to inventor Dean Kamen, geneticist George Church, and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, anticipate about our human-robot future? For even as robots and A.I. intrigue us and make us anxious about the future, our fascination with robots has always been about more than the potential of the technology -- it's also about what robots tell us about being human

Table Of Contents

Prelude: When the robots arrived -- Teddy bear bot -- The %$@! robot that swiped my job -- Sex (intimacy) bot -- Facebook bot -- Doc bot -- Hello, robot driver -- Warrior bot -- Beer bot -- It's not about the robots bot -- Politician bot -- Wearable bot -- Amazon bot -- Journalism bot -- Mars (Daemon) bot -- Risk-free bot -- Brain optimization bot -- Thriller bot -- Coffee delivery bot -- Memory bot -- Matrix bot -- Homo digitalis/homo syntheticis -- Tourist (evolution) bot -- God bot -- Immortal me bot -- Epilogue: After the robots arrived

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