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Robot Souls

Author : Eve Poole
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000918718
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Robot Souls written by Eve Poole and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of the biggest design problems in Artificial Intelligence are how to build robots that behave in line with human values and how to stop them ever going rogue. One under-explored solution to these alignment and control problems might be to examine how these are already addressed in the design of humans. Looking closely at the human blueprint, it contains a suite of capacities that are so clumsy they have generally been kept away from AI. It was assumed that robots with features like emotions and intuition, that made mistakes and looked for meaning and purpose, would not work as well as robots without this kind of code. But on considering why all these irrational properties are there, it seems that they emerge from the source code of soul. Because it is actually this ‘junk’ code that makes us human and promotes the kind of reciprocal altruism that keeps humanity alive and thriving. Robot Souls looks at developments in AI and reviews the emergence of ideas of consciousness and the soul. It places our ‘junk code’ in this context and argues that it is time to foreground that code, and to use it to look again at how we are programming AI. The book author Eve Poole received an OBE in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to education and gender equality.

The Soul of the Robot

Author : Barrington J. Bayley
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575102071
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Soul of the Robot written by Barrington J. Bayley and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was unique. Alone in a world that did not understand him, he tested the super powers of his mind and body. More than a machine, but less than a man, he searched restlessly for the truth. Before his quest was done, he had died and been reborn, had fought his way from a grim dungeon to a royal throne. Jasperodus, the only super-robot to have been granted consciousness, must decide whether to share his soul-possessing secrets with the other robots or to betray them to save mankind.

Soul of the Robot

Author : Barrington J. Bayley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780385017725
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Soul of the Robot written by Barrington J. Bayley and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Digital Souls

Author : Andy Siege
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3985300151
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Digital Souls written by Andy Siege and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-22 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of short stories is thought provoking and sometimes wacky. You’ll meet aliens, digital cats, lesbian terrorists and genetically engineered bugs. The themes and genres in this anthology vary from cyberpunk to time travel, from romance to trash. With this collection Andy Siege explores the philosophical boundaries of what it means to be human in an unexplainable and vast universe. As time bends and worlds collide it becomes ever more clear that the true thesis of this book isn’t rooted in sci fi... but in reality.

Robot Soul

Author : James Fink
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 097499331X
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Robot Soul written by James Fink and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 2015, household robot helpers are as common as electrical applicances. When one of the best selling machines kills its owner and the ensuing trial grips the nation, one small town detective uncovers a web of mystery and corporative deceit.

Screen Consciousness

Author : Robert Pepperell
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042020164
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Screen Consciousness written by Robert Pepperell and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays is driven by the question of how we know what we know, and in particular how we can be certain about something even when we know it is an illusion. The contention of the book is that this age-old question has acquired a new urgency as certain trends in science, technology and ideas have taken the discussion of consciousness out of the philosophy department and deposited it in the world at large. As a consequence, a body of literature from many fields has produced its own sets of concerns and methods under the rubric of Consciousness Studies. Each contribution in this collection deals with issues and questions that lots of people have been thinking about for many years in many different contexts, things such as the nature of film, cinema, world, mind and so on. Those of us fascinated by these diverse yet related issues may have often felt we were working in a disciplinary no-man's-land. Now suddenly, it seems with Consciousness Studies we have a coherent intellectual home - albeit one that is self-consciously eclectic. The essays included in Screen Consciousness: Cinema, Mind and World are from a range of disciplines -- art, philosophy, film theory, anthropology and technology studies -- each represented by significant international figures, and each concerned with how their field is being transformed by the new discipline of Consciousness Studies. Together they attempt to reconcile the oncoming rush of new data from science and technology about how we know what we know, with the insights gained from the long view of history, philosophy and art. Each of the contributions seeks to interpose Consciousness Studies between film and mind, where for cultural theorists psychoanalysis had traditionally stood. This is more than simply updating Film Studies or nodding in the direction of cognitive film theory. Film, with all its sentient, sensuous and social qualities, is a common reference point between all these forces, and Consciousness Studies provides the intellectual impetus for this book to revisit familiar problems with fresh insight.

Flommy the Robot 1

Author : Daniel Robinson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0578014564
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Flommy the Robot 1 written by Daniel Robinson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth is in dark times. The human race has been largely drugged into a near coma in a corporate program begun in the 1960's. Robots have appeared, many virtually indistinguishable from humans, now becoming superior to humans by default. The Robot planet Flaatu, led by Flommy's ancient nemesis, the evil robot Deceptor Zero, has traveled fifteen billion light years to attack the Earth. A terrorist gang is planning to melt the Eastern Antarctic Ice Shelf, which will flood the planet. BOXOR the Boxing Robot has become addicted to computer viruses, leaving Flommy the Robot to save mankind. But will Flommy's mysterious past prove to be his undoing? Will the Earth -- what's left of it -- survive?

The Soul of the Robot

Author : Barrington J. Bayley
Publisher : Cosmos Books (PA)
ISBN 13 : 9781587153815
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book The Soul of the Robot written by Barrington J. Bayley and published by Cosmos Books (PA). This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rod of Light

Author : Barrington J. Bayley
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575102020
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Rod of Light written by Barrington J. Bayley and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robot evolution has advanced to the point that intelligent robots have liberated themselves from servitude, defending themselves from servitude, defending themselves against the humans who work to exterminate them using super-machines. The ultimate hope of the most powerfully intelligent robots lies in the attainment of human consciousness. And they are willing to steal men's souls if they must, to get this final elusive quality for themselves. Only one free robot, Jasperodus, has been granted true consciousness - a soul - by his maker, now long dead. Brought into the soul research project by force, Jasperodus faces a moral dilemma: to release his secret and bring about the final downfall of humanity to a new race of super-robots, or to keep his own kind forever from the light of consciousness. And the mechanized armies of the humans press ever forward, seeking the robot hideout.

50 in 50

Author : Harry Harrison
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466823135
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book 50 in 50 written by Harry Harrison and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-11-16 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty stories for fifty years! A collection-and celebration-of the work of Harry Harrison From his first sale in 1950 on, Harry Harrison has been one of the science fiction world's creative dynamos, working in every subgenre of the field, always bursting with provocative ideas. Parodic one moment, serious the next, Harrison has been called by Brian Aldiss "one of the few authors capable of carrying the old vigor of earlier days forward into a new epoch." On the occasion of his fiftieth anniversary as a professional writer, Harrison has gathered together fifty of his best stories-one for each year-along with substantial notes and introductory material. 50 in 50 is at once a memoir, a compendium of an engaging body of work, and a look at the history of science fiction in the second half of the 20th century. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The God of the Future

Author : Jeff Hood
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532633564
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book The God of the Future written by Jeff Hood and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past doesn't exist. The present is a lie. The future is an illusion. Time. God. Being. Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow. God was. God wasn't. God is. God isn't. God will be. God will not be. The journey never changes. The future is inertia. Maybe it's not the first time we've experienced it all? Died. Dead. Dying. The incarnation of God grows stranger and stranger. These are the visions. Here in the past. Here in the present. Trinities of time call to us . . . from somewhere beyond. Dogs demand salvation. Robots reproduce. Pollution forces evacuation. Chaos rages. The end is near. A demise of God is here. Welcome to the future.

The Last Astronaut

Author : Pel Torro
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 1473204208
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book The Last Astronaut written by Pel Torro and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex was a pioneer. Like all pioneers he had problems. He had more problems than most; when things start to go wrong in space they go wrong in a big way. One by one the perils of the void took their toll of his companions. Alex was alone, alone with a vision, the vision of a town, home. Only thoughts of home kept him alive. He remembered trees, houses, shops, churches, peoples...above all people. At last he reached earth...or perhaps it wasn't earth? Things had changed unbelievably. Perhaps he had changed. How long had he been away? How far had he drifted? There was a sinister possibility that this wasn't home at all. If the things that looked like people weren't people but aliens, what was he to do? Alex was a realist. He knew what space could do to a man's mind. He was disinclined to trust the evidence of his own senses. A mine that has had far more than it can take can produce from very peculiar perceptions...

And so Began the War

Author : Ian Anthony Hollis
Publisher : Ian Anthony Hollis
ISBN 13 : 1393955088
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book And so Began the War written by Ian Anthony Hollis and published by Ian Anthony Hollis. This book was released on with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoe Evelyn Lionheart, a young roboticist, and her house-robot, Herbert, are inadvertently swept away on an adventure to stop a war, after a powerful government vies for control of a much smaller, but technologically superior nation. When the smaller nation's government refuses to be controlled, robot production is put into overdrive in an attempt to create a robot army, alarming the world-renowned roboticist, Michael Alouicious Copperpot. After Lord President Smythe and Vice-President Perriwinkle realise that the robots are disobeying their expertly hacked programming, they resort to unleashing an army of mindlessly obedient clones to overthrow the robots and take control of the resistant nation. Seeing how events are about to unfold, and concerned that the people of the world they created are about to destroy themselves, The First Five Gods send in one of their own - Dalfor, The God of Order & Chaos - to try and soften the blow of the war and prevent things from getting out of hand.

Surrogate Humanity

Author : Neda Atanasoski
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478004452
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Surrogate Humanity written by Neda Atanasoski and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Surrogate Humanity Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora trace the ways in which robots, artificial intelligence, and other technologies serve as surrogates for human workers within a labor system entrenched in racial capitalism and patriarchy. Analyzing myriad technologies, from sex robots and military drones to sharing-economy platforms, Atanasoski and Vora show how liberal structures of antiblackness, settler colonialism, and patriarchy are fundamental to human---machine interactions, as well as the very definition of the human. While these new technologies and engineering projects promise a revolutionary new future, they replicate and reinforce racialized and gendered ideas about devalued work, exploitation, dispossession, and capitalist accumulation. Yet, even as engineers design robots to be more perfect versions of the human—more rational killers, more efficient workers, and tireless companions—the potential exists to develop alternative modes of engineering and technological development in ways that refuse the racial and colonial logics that maintain social hierarchies and inequality.

Innovation Management in Robot Society

Author : Kristian Wasén
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317654439
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Innovation Management in Robot Society written by Kristian Wasén and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces cutting-edge issues and thought-provoking concepts on innovation management. It illustrates how robotic developments allow new powerful support functionalities for harnessing workplace innovations and new types of work in enterprises. In particular, low status jobs—heavy, repetitive and dangerous jobs—are disappearing and increasingly replaced by creative and meaningful work. It situates the research within theoretical developments and academic literature in business and management studies on innovation networks and partnerships. The book then introduces the notion of "friction management," which invites us to re-examine creative tensions and explore how contradictions may spur or restrain change and innovation in this landscape. Innovation and change challenge established patterns, cultures, value systems, interests and network configurations—which creates a variety of frictions. Therefore, a theory of friction management is crucial, particularly in innovation-intensive industries, and can help professionals to understand change and the dynamics of innovation so that they can orchestrate events and learn to distinguish between the creative and negative frictions that can arise and that are important for change and the innovation process. Thus, the goal of friction management is to orchestrate, mobilize and (re)combine key organizational resources to strategically increase innovation capacity and promote dynamic renewal and creativity. It will be of interest to scholars and postgraduates in the areas of innovation management, sociology and business administration.

Pastimes of the Unseen

Author : Dean Vyas
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1491885548
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Pastimes of the Unseen written by Dean Vyas and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are forces around us, good and evil, that have total involvement in our lives, and yet we have no knowledge of them. These forces, from a realm of spirit, are helping or damning us, simultaneously. from the present day to far into the future, the line of the Priest family, from generation to generation, are siding with the forces of good. But what will be the outcome of this allegiance with these forces? Will their beliefs and actions be futile or efficacious in the greater scheme of things? Similarly, the progress of humanity is split--some venerating the benevolent forces, while a faction veers away into the hands of those evil. and these two aspects of the human race are in conflict; the Priests, therefore, are also embroiled. Wars result, and consequentially a renegade portion of humanity becomes a breed of cold monsters, half machine. They enact a final war ... But who will emerge triumphant? Whose philosophy is right, whose is wrong? and what to speak of the far reaching consequences for the spirit of these antagonistic facets of humanity? the humble Priests find themselves implicated; they are to play a vital role in the evolution of humanity and an oppressed race enslaved by the cyborgs, where interstellar space travel, the terraforming of planets, and extreme genetic engineering become possible, where events of Biblical magnitude take place. Pastimes of the Unseen is a story describing those forces around us, invisible, that are vying for our very body, and soul, wanting to destroy it or glorify it, and the consequence of our relationship to one or other of these forces.

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots

Author : Gareth Branwyn
Publisher : Que Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0789745488
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots written by Gareth Branwyn and published by Que Publishing. This book was released on 2003-09-19 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version. A real-world business book for the explosion of eBay entrepreneurs! Absolute Beginner's Guide to Launching an eBay Business guides you step-by-step through the process of setting up an eBay business, and offers real-world advice on how to run that business on a day-to-day basis and maximize financial success. This book covers determining what kind of business to run, writing an action-oriented business plan, establishing an effective accounting system, setting up a home office, obtaining starting inventory, arranging initial funding, establishing an eBay presence, and arranging for automated post-auction management.