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Robots unlimited: life in a virtual age
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Publisher
A K Peters
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
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Endicott College - General Collection
TJ 211 .L456 2005
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TJ 211 .L456 2005
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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.
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9781568812397
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