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Talking to robots : tales from our human-robot futures / David Ewing Duncan.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Dutton, 2019Description: viii, 303 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781524743598 (hardcover)
  • 1524743593 (hardcover)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Talking to robotsDDC classification:
  • 629.8/924019
LOC classification:
  • TJ 211.49 D911t 2019
Contents:
Teddy bear bot -- The robot that stole my job -- Sex (intimacy) bot -- Wearable bot -- Facebook bot -- Doctor bot -- Hello robot driver -- Warrior bot -- Beer bot -- It's not about the robot bot -- Politician bot -- Brain optimization bot -- Amazon bot -- Journalism bot -- Mars (Daemon) bot -- Risk-free bot -- Coffee delivery bot -- Thriller bot -- Memory bot -- Matrix bot -- Homo digitalis/homo syntheticis -- Tourist (evolution) bot -- God bot -- Immortal me bot.
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.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) TJ 211.49 D911t 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000173328

Teddy bear bot -- The robot that stole my job -- Sex (intimacy) bot -- Wearable bot -- Facebook bot -- Doctor bot -- Hello robot driver -- Warrior bot -- Beer bot -- It's not about the robot bot -- Politician bot -- Brain optimization bot -- Amazon bot -- Journalism bot -- Mars (Daemon) bot -- Risk-free bot -- Coffee delivery bot -- Thriller bot -- Memory bot -- Matrix bot -- Homo digitalis/homo syntheticis -- Tourist (evolution) bot -- God bot -- Immortal me bot.

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.

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