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Robot : Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind
   Moravec, Hans (Author)
Robot : Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind
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ISBN-13 9780195136302
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In this mind-bending new book, Hans Moravec takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride packed with startling predictions. For example, Moravec suggests that in the not-too-distant future, an army of robots will displace workers, causing massive, unprecedented unemployment. But then a period of very comfortable existence will follow, as humans benefit from a fully automated economy. And eventually as machines evolve far beyond humanity, robots will supplant us. But if Moravecpredicts the end of the domination of human beings, his is not a bleak vision. Far from railing against a future in which machines rule the world, Moravec embraces it, taking the startling view that intelligent robots will actually be our evolutionary heirs. "Intelligent machines, which will grow fromus, learn our skills, and share our goals and values, can be viewed as children of our minds." And since they are our children, we will want them to outdistance us. In fact, in a bid for immortality, many of our descendants will choose to transform into "ex humans" as they upload themselves into advanced computers. We will become our children and live forever.This book charts the trajectory of robotics in breathtaking detail. A must read for artificial intelligence, technology and computer enthusiasts, Moravec's freewheeling but informed speculations present a future far different than we ever dared to imagine.
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Machines will attain human levels of intelligence by the year 2040,predicts robotics expert Hans Moravec. And by 2050, they will have far surpassedus.In this mind-bending new book, Hans Moravec takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride packed with such startling predictions. He tells us, for instance,that in the not-too-distant future, an army of robots will displace workers,causing massive, unprecedented unemployment. But then, says Moravec, a periodof very comfortable existence will follow, as humans benefit from a fullyautomated economy. And eventually, as machines evolve far beyond humanity,robots will supplant us. But if Moravec predicts the end of the domination byhuman beings, his is not a bleak vision. Far from railing against a future inwhich machines rule the world, Moravec embraces it, taking the startling viewthat intelligent robots will actually be our evolutionary heirs. "Intelligentmachines, which will grow from us, learn our skills, and share our goals andvalues, can be viewed as children of our minds." And since they are ourchildren, we will want them to outdistance us. In fact, in a bid forimmortality, many of our descendants will choose to transform into "ex humans,"as they upload themselves into advanced computers. We will become our childrenand live forever.In his provocative new book, the highly anticipated follow-up to hisbestselling volume Mind Children, Moravec charts the trajectory of robotics inbreathtaking detail. A must read for artificial intelligence, technology, andcomputer enthusiasts, Moravec's freewheeling but informed speculations present afuture far different than we ever dared imagine.
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"A well-written and fascinating study of robot/human relations."--Scienceand Technology
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"Intellectually adventurous and free with confident futuristicspeculation."--International Herald Tribune
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"Moravec elaborates on his vision in bold, and surprisingly compellingdetail... no reader will want to miss out on Moravec's clairvoyant perception oftomorrow's universe."--The Lingua Franca Review
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"Moravec's book is...intellectually adventurous and free with confidentspeculation. This is good knockabout stuff, a heady and unnrving glimpse into apossible future."--Colin McGinn, NYTBR
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"Moravec's vision, a bewildering but amazingly interconnected set ofideas, is enthusiastically presented and reasonably argued, and will captivatefuturists."--Gilbert Taylor,Booklist
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"Robotics pioneer Moravec predicts that if the present exponential growthrate of computers continues, super-robots that perceive, intuit, adapt, thinkand even simulate feelings much like human beings will be buildable before2050.... Moravec dares to dream of a trillion-fingered medical robot whosemolecular interventions allow it to act as diagnostic instrument, surgeon andmedicine, and of quantum computers that make time travel conceivable. In thisremarkable report, Moravec may have looked deeper into some aspects of thefuture than anyone else."--Publishers Weekly
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"Robot is a dramatic, awe-inspiring prophecy of the human future by HansMoravec....Wired readers sampled Moravec's vision in 'Supehumanism'. His newbook amplifies and substantiates that vision in concise, simple, yet elegantprose. Robot is an uncompromisingly radical synthesis of sociobiology, computerscience, and philosophy. Robot paints a headbending but persuasive picture ofour next 50 years, augmented with fascinating fragments from the more distantfuture." --Wired
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"Stop worrying about the Millennium Bug and read how we'll be replaced byour electronic creations before 2050. Robot is the most awesome work ofcontrolled imagination I have ever encountered: Hans Moravec stretched my minduntil it hit the stops."--Sir Arthur C. Clark, Chancellor: International SpaceUniversity and University of Moratuwa
Short Description
Moravec predicts that machines will attain human levels of intelligence by the year 2040. By 2050 they will have surpassed us. He also suggests that before long an army of robots will eventually displace workers, causing massive, unprecedented unemployment. Far from railing against a future in which machines rule the world, Moravec embraces it, taking the startling view that intelligent robots will actually be our evolutionary heirs.
Long Description
In this compelling book, Hans Moravec predicts that machines will attain human levels of intelligence by the year 2040, and that by 2050, they will surpass us. But even though Moravec predicts the end of the domination by human beings, his is not a bleak vision. Far from railing against a future in which machines rule the world, Moravec embraces it, taking the startling view that intelligent robots will actually be our evolutionary heirs. "Intelligent machines, which will grow from us, learn our skills, and share our goals and values, can be viewed as children of our minds." And since they are our children, we will want them to outdistance us. In fact, in a bid for immortality, many of our descendants will choose to transform into "ex humans," as they upload themselves into advanced computers. This provocative new book, the highly anticipated follow-up to his bestselling volume Mind Children, charts the trajectory of robotics in breathtaking detail. A must read for artificial intelligence, technology, and computer enthusiasts, Moravec's freewheeling but informed speculations present a future far different than we ever dared imagine.

In the highly anticipated follow-up to his bestselling "Mind Children, " Moravec charts the trajectory of robots in breathtaking detail, looking forward to the day in which intelligent robots will be mankind's evolutionary heirs. 31 halftones.
Product Details
Edition : 2000 Product Dimensions: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated Weight: 1.19 lbs.
Binding: Trade Paper
Number of Pages 240
Language: English
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