Robots unlimited: life in a virtual age

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.