March of the Machines: The Breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence
While horror films and science fiction have repeatedly warned of robots running amok, Kevin Warwick takes the threats out of the realm of fiction and into the real world, truly giving us something to worry about.

Meeting skeptics head on, Warwick goes beyond his penetrating attacks on their assumptions and prejudices about what should be considered as intelligence to reveal what he has already achieved: building robots that communicate in their own language, share experiences, teach each other lessons, and behave as they wish with regard to human beings.

Part history of robotics and part futurism, March of the Machines surveys the substantial advances made in artificial intelligence over the past century while looking ahead to an increasingly uneasy relationship between humans and their creations.

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March of the Machines: The Breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence
While horror films and science fiction have repeatedly warned of robots running amok, Kevin Warwick takes the threats out of the realm of fiction and into the real world, truly giving us something to worry about.

Meeting skeptics head on, Warwick goes beyond his penetrating attacks on their assumptions and prejudices about what should be considered as intelligence to reveal what he has already achieved: building robots that communicate in their own language, share experiences, teach each other lessons, and behave as they wish with regard to human beings.

Part history of robotics and part futurism, March of the Machines surveys the substantial advances made in artificial intelligence over the past century while looking ahead to an increasingly uneasy relationship between humans and their creations.

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March of the Machines: The Breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence

March of the Machines: The Breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence

by Kevin Warwick
March of the Machines: The Breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence

March of the Machines: The Breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence

by Kevin Warwick

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Overview

While horror films and science fiction have repeatedly warned of robots running amok, Kevin Warwick takes the threats out of the realm of fiction and into the real world, truly giving us something to worry about.

Meeting skeptics head on, Warwick goes beyond his penetrating attacks on their assumptions and prejudices about what should be considered as intelligence to reveal what he has already achieved: building robots that communicate in their own language, share experiences, teach each other lessons, and behave as they wish with regard to human beings.

Part history of robotics and part futurism, March of the Machines surveys the substantial advances made in artificial intelligence over the past century while looking ahead to an increasingly uneasy relationship between humans and their creations.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780252072239
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 07/20/2004
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Kevin Warwick is professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, UK. He is the author of numerous books on a wide variety of subjects including robotics, information technology, biomedicine, and ethics, and is deeply engaged with advances in neural implants.

Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements                                      vii
Preface                                      ix
Chapter 1   A Cosy Relationship                                      1
Chapter 2   In the Year 2050                                     21
Chapter 3    What is Life?                                      39
Chapter 4   Humanoid Robots                                      62
Chapter 5   Artificial Intelligence                                      89
Chapter 6   Big Brother                                      115
Chapter 7   Human Brains Versus Machine Brains                                      137
Chapter 8   Humans Are Best?                                      163
Chapter 9   The Reading Robots - An Overture                                      186
Chapter 10   Our Robots Today                                      209
Chapter 11   What Next With the Robots?                                      234
Chapter 12   A Fantastic Future                                      257
Chapter 13   Mankind's Last Stand?                                      280
Bibliography                                      303
Further Reading                                      307
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