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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duncan, David Ewing, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robotics--Human factors.

Robotics.

Human-robot interaction.

Physical Description:

viii, 303 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]

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.

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.

Other Format:

Online version: Duncan, David Ewing, author. Talking to robots

ISBN:

9781524743598

1524743593

OCLC:

1060195343