Robots unlimited: life in a virtual age
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| Title: | Robots unlimited: life in a virtual age |
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| Authors: | Levy, David N. L. |
| Publication Year: | 2006 |
| Subject Terms: | Robotics -- History, Artificial intelligence, Computers and civilization, Science -- Forecasting |
| Contents Note: | pt. I. An early history of artificial intelligence -- 1. Early history : logic, games and speech -- Early logic machines -- Electrical logic machines -- Early games machines -- Konrad Zuse and the first computer -- Mechanical speech synthesis -- Electrical speech synthesis -- Speech recognition -- 2. Early history : robots, thought, creativity, learning and translation -- Robot tortoises -- Alan Turing -- Creativity -- Machine learning -- Machine translation -- The 1956 Dartmouth workshop. pt. II. Fifty years of progress -- 3. How computers play games -- Chess -- Checkers (Draughts) -- Using databases to solve other games -- Go : the most difficult game of all -- Playing metagames : programs that learn to play from the rules -- Games with imperfect information and games with chance -- 4. How computers recognize -- Visual recognition : how computers see -- Some applications of computer vision -- Speech recognition -- Taste recognition -- Smell recognition -- The recognition of creative style -- 5. Creative computers -- How computers write poetry -- How computers write fiction -- How computers write non-fiction -- How computers compose music -- How computers create visual art -- 6. How computers think -- What is logic? -- Logical reasoning -- Problem solving -- Planning -- Commonsense reasoning -- Case based reasoning -- How computers learn -- How computers discover and invent -- Knowledge discovery -- Expert systems -- 7. How computers communicate -- Natural language processing -- Text-to-speech synthesis -- 8. Things to do for robots -- Robot soccer -- A robot sports miscellany -- The robot chauffeur -- Urban search-and-rescue robots -- Robot surgeons -- Gastrobots -- Domestic robots -- The robot grand challenge -- Humanoid robots. pt. III. The next fifty years -- 9. The exponential growth of scientific achievements -- What is exponential growth? -- Moore's law of computing power -- The optical computer -- The DNA computer -- The molecular computer (Nano-machines) -- The quantum computer -- Computer memory -- The knowledge explosion -- Some views of the future -- Super-robots -- 10. Emotion and love, Al style -- Functions of emotion -- Psychological theories of emotion -- Feeling emotions for others -- Humans feeling affections for robots : the Tamagotchi -- Five criteria from emotions -- Models of emotion in robots -- Empathy : how robots recognize and measure emotions in humans -- Mind reading -- How robots express emotion -- Robot personality -- Love and marriage with robots : an acceptable idea? -- 11. Sex and reproduction, Al style -- Sex with robots -- Intelligent sex machines -- Experiments with sexbots -- The mechanics of sex with robots -- When can I buy one? -- Dominic Choy's patent application -- Robot reproduction -- Robot evolution -- Robot offspring, with a dash of human added -- 12. Robot consciousness -- What is consciousness? -- Can robots have consciousness? -- Robot feelings -- Robot hopes and wishes -- Can robots have beliefs? -- Robot dreams -- Can robots have free will? -- The religious life of robots -- 13. Robot rights and ethics -- The rights of robots -- Robot ethics. |
| Original Identifier: | 58526310 ocm58526310 |
| Document Type: | Monograph |
| Language: | English |
| Access URL: | http://www.crcnetbase.com/isbn/9781439865637 http://site.ebrary.com/id/10158031 |
| Accession Number: | edsram.997009538786405171 |
| Database: | RAMBI |
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