Talking to robots : tales from our human-robot futures /

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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Duncan, David Ewing (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]
Subjects:
Robotics > Human factors.
Human-robot interaction.
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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