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Book Synopsis Robots Don't Clean Toilets #3 by : J. Press
Download or read book Robots Don't Clean Toilets #3 written by J. Press and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the School Invention Fair coming up, Sam is determined to invent the best invention. First, he builds a robot that’ll clean the toilet (but it refuses). He tries a fart fan (but that just creates a mess at lunch). Will Sam come to the fair empty-handed, or will he create something great and win a prize?
Book Synopsis Robots Don't Clean Toilets by : Judy Press
Download or read book Robots Don't Clean Toilets written by Judy Press and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the School Invention Fair coming up, Sam is determined to invent the best invention.
Download or read book Abra-Ca-Doodle! #4 written by J. Press and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam's school is hosting a talent show to raise money for the Environmental Center. But Sam doesn't have a talent to perform! Or so he thinks. He tries juggling, but just can't get the hang of it. Plus, his arch-nemesis, Wax, decides to juggle in the talent show as well--and Wax is good. But in a moment of inspiration, Sam learns that sometimes you don't have to look very far to find out what you're really good at!
Book Synopsis Cat Pictures Please by : Naomi Kritzer
Download or read book Cat Pictures Please written by Naomi Kritzer and published by Fairwood Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed writer Naomi Kritzer's marvelous tales of science fiction and fantasy are now collected in Cat Pictures and Other Stories. Here are seventeen short stories, including her Hugo Award-winning story "Cat Pictures Please," which is about what would happen if artificial intelligence was born out of our search engine history. Two stories are previously unpublished. Kritzer has a gift for telling stories both humorous and tender. Her stories are filled with wit and intelligence, and require thoughtful reading.
Book Synopsis More Human Than Human by : Neil Clarke
Download or read book More Human Than Human written by Neil Clarke and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of creating an artificial human is an old one. One of the earliest science-fictional novels, Frankenstein, concerned itself primarily with the hubris of creation, and one’s relationship to one’s creator. Later versions of this “artificial human” story (and indeed later adaptations of Frankenstein) changed the focus to more modernist questions… What is the nature of humanity? What does it mean to be human? These stories continued through the golden age of science fiction with Isaac Asimov’s I Robot story cycle, and then through post-modern iterations from new wave writers like Philip K. Dick. Today, this compelling science fiction trope persists in mass media narratives like Westworld and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, as well as twenty-first century science fiction novels like Charles Stross’s Saturn's Children and Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl. The short stories in More Human than Human demonstrate the depth and breadth of artificial humanity in contemporary science fiction. Issues of passing . . . of what it is to be human . . . of autonomy and slavery and oppression, and yes, the hubris of creation; these ideas have fascinated us for at least two hundred years, and this selection of stories demonstrates why it is such an alluring and recurring conceit.
Book Synopsis Robotics in Service by : Joseph F. Engelberger
Download or read book Robotics in Service written by Joseph F. Engelberger and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Robotics in Service he observes that the time is ripe for robotics to launch itself into an entirely new marketplace.
Book Synopsis Don't be a Robot by : Christoph Burkhardt
Download or read book Don't be a Robot written by Christoph Burkhardt and published by Midas Management Verlag. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something happened, something big. Over thousands of years we became the humans we are today. Homo sapiens: to our current knowledge, the most intelligent species on this planet. But are we the most intelligent species, period? We are standing at the brink of a massive paradigm shift. A shift so fundamental, so far-reaching and transformative that we cannot even begin to understand what is going to happen to us and our intelligence. We are facing the most transformative change in about 10,000 years. Industrialization and globalization, the connectedness of minds and machines in the worldwide web, and the use of data as a new currency are mere precursors of what is going to happen next. We will no longer be the only species using reason, experience and intelligence to make sense of our world. Maybe we should rethink calling it our world anyway.
Book Synopsis Robots Don’t Respect Sundays by : Mark Antony Rossi
Download or read book Robots Don’t Respect Sundays written by Mark Antony Rossi and published by Soma Publishing . This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Robots Don't Respect Sundays" locates the humor in facts. It's a book of tough, terse and often terrific accounts of science and technology gone awry. Hard-hitting and ethical. Ironic and spiritual. Direct and downright funny.
Download or read book K-punk written by Mark Fisher and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive collection of the writings of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), whose work defined critical writing for a generation. This comprehensive collection brings together the work of acclaimed blogger, writer, political activist and lecturer Mark Fisher (aka k-punk). Covering the period 2004 - 2016, the collection will include some of the best writings from his seminal blog k-punk; a selection of his brilliantly insightful film, television and music reviews; his key writings on politics, activism, precarity, hauntology, mental health and popular modernism for numerous websites and magazines; his final unfinished introduction to his planned work on "Acid Communism"; and a number of important interviews from the last decade. Edited by Darren Ambrose and with a foreword by Simon Reynolds.
Book Synopsis 123 Robotics Experiments for the Evil Genius by : Myke Predko
Download or read book 123 Robotics Experiments for the Evil Genius written by Myke Predko and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2003-05-21 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 123 ROBOT EXPERIMENTS! 123 STEPS NEEDED TO BRING OUT THE GENIUS IN EVERY BASEMENT HOBBYIST! If you enjoy tinkering in your workshop and have a fascination for robotics, you'll have hours of fun working through the 123 experiments found in this innovative project book. More than just an enjoyable way to spend time, these exciting experiments also provide a solid grounding in robotics, electronics, and programming. Each experiment builds on the skills acquired in those before it so you develop a hands-on, nuts-and-bolts understanding of robotics -- from the ground up. 123 Robotics Projects for the Evil Genius -- * Introduces you to robotics, electronics, and programming for robotics step-by-step -- you don't need to be a science whiz to get started, but you will be when you have finished * Vividly explains the science behind robots and the technologies needed to build them, including: Electronics; Mechanical assembly; Motors and batteries; Programming and microcontrollers * Shows how you can create simple robots and models using materials found around the house and workroom * Requires only inexpensive, easily obtained parts and tools * Provides a PCB (printed circuit board) that will make it easy to create the circuits used in this book as well as your own experiments * Gives you directions for building a maze-solving robot, two different designs for a light-seeking robot, an artificial intelligence program that will respond to you, and much more * Explains underlying principles and suggests other applications * Supplies parts lists and program listings IMAGINATIVE EXPERIMENTS THAT TEACH THE BASICS -- WHILE PROVIDING HOURS OF FUN!
Download or read book Robo Sapiens written by Peter Menzel and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information about intelligent robots and their makers, including photographis, interviews, behind-the-scenes information and technical date about machines that is easy to understand.
Download or read book Ethics for Robots written by Derek Leben and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics for Robots describes and defends a method for designing and evaluating ethics algorithms for autonomous machines, such as self-driving cars and search and rescue drones. Derek Leben argues that such algorithms should be evaluated by how effectively they accomplish the problem of cooperation among self-interested organisms, and therefore, rather than simulating the psychological systems that have evolved to solve this problem, engineers should be tackling the problem itself, taking relevant lessons from our moral psychology. Leben draws on the moral theory of John Rawls, arguing that normative moral theories are attempts to develop optimal solutions to the problem of cooperation. He claims that Rawlsian Contractarianism leads to the ‘Maximin’ principle – the action that maximizes the minimum value – and that the Maximin principle is the most effective solution to the problem of cooperation. He contrasts the Maximin principle with other principles and shows how they can often produce non-cooperative results. Using real-world examples – such as an autonomous vehicle facing a situation where every action results in harm, home care machines, and autonomous weapons systems – Leben contrasts Rawlsian algorithms with alternatives derived from utilitarianism and natural rights libertarianism. Including chapter summaries and a glossary of technical terms, Ethics for Robots is essential reading for philosophers, engineers, computer scientists, and cognitive scientists working on the problem of ethics for autonomous systems.
Book Synopsis How Humans Judge Machines by : Cesar A. Hidalgo
Download or read book How Humans Judge Machines written by Cesar A. Hidalgo and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How people judge humans and machines differently, in scenarios involving natural disasters, labor displacement, policing, privacy, algorithmic bias, and more. How would you feel about losing your job to a machine? How about a tsunami alert system that fails? Would you react differently to acts of discrimination depending on whether they were carried out by a machine or by a human? What about public surveillance? How Humans Judge Machines compares people's reactions to actions performed by humans and machines. Using data collected in dozens of experiments, this book reveals the biases that permeate human-machine interactions. Are there conditions in which we judge machines unfairly? Is our judgment of machines affected by the moral dimensions of a scenario? Is our judgment of machine correlated with demographic factors such as education or gender? César Hidalgo and colleagues use hard science to take on these pressing technological questions. Using randomized experiments, they create revealing counterfactuals and build statistical models to explain how people judge artificial intelligence and whether they do it fairly. Through original research, How Humans Judge Machines bring us one step closer tounderstanding the ethical consequences of AI.
Book Synopsis Fish Heads and Duck Skin by : Lindsey Salatka
Download or read book Fish Heads and Duck Skin written by Lindsey Salatka and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the advice of a five-dollar psychic, Tina Martin, a zany, overworked mother of two, quits her high-powered job and moves her family to Shanghai. Tina yearns for this new setting to bring her the zen-like inner peace she’s always heard about on infomercials. Instead, she becomes a totally exasperated fish out of water, doing wacky things like stealing the shoes of a shifty delivery man, spraying local women with a bidet hose, and contemplating the murder of her new pet cricket. It takes the friendship of an elderly tai chi instructor, a hot Mandarin tutor, and several mah-jongg-tile-slinging expats to bring Tina closer to a culture she doesn’t understand, the dream job she never knew existed, and the self she has always sought. Fish Heads and Duck Skin will resonate with anyone who has ever wondered who they are, why they were put here, and how they ever lived before eating pan-fried pork buns.
Book Synopsis The Coming Age of Robots by : George Pettinico
Download or read book The Coming Age of Robots written by George Pettinico and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth look at how American consumers will react to the significant social, economic and marketplace changes that will be brought about by the robot revolution. Over the next twenty years, the presence of robots will dramatically increase in our daily lives. Robots will serve as maids, gardeners, companions, waiters, security guards, nurses, teachers, playmates, receptionists, chauffeurs and prostitutes – to name only a few roles they will assume. These robots will be intelligent, autonomous, communicative, emotional, and continually progressing in their abilities. This book provides an in-depth look at how American consumers will react to the significant social, economic and marketplace changes that will be brought about by the robot revolution. Our insights come from national surveys of over 2,700 Americans, as well as a thorough review of existing academic research and expert predictions. We provide suggestions for publically-acceptable robot roles, robot design and the optimal marketplace approaches for successful human-robot interactions. Ready or not, it’s coming. And sooner than you might think.
Book Synopsis The Future Happens Twice by : Matt Browne
Download or read book The Future Happens Twice written by Matt Browne and published by M. Browne: Perennial Project. This book was released on 2007 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debrya Handsen, a 33-year-old professor in computational linguistics at the University of Minnesota, is ready for a career change. She decides to leave her academic post and move to Nevada, where she joins a top secret project that is being sponsored by the American government. Using powerful telescopes on the far side of the Moon, the project's astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet that is eighty-two light years away; simultaneously, a major breakthrough in bio- engineering presents the project with the unique opportunity of long-distance space travel. At first Debrya has no idea why the study of language is to play such a central role, and why twin studies are also so important. During her orientation week she discovers a disturbing secret that makes her wish she had never joined the project. Soon she is faced with the dilemma of revealing the dark secrets of the project or being part of the most ambitious undertaking in the history of humankind. Matt Browne's beautifully worked space epic explores the bounds of human hope and plumbs the depths of human duplicity. Tender relationships between the budding astronauts are pitched against the disillusion they feel when an embattled President confronts them with their true origins and purpose. The author's fascination with the fields of bioengineering and information technology sustains the reader's interest all the way through this roller-coaster ride. The adventures continue in parts II and III of Matt Browne's thrilling trilogy, The Future Happens Twice - Human Destiny and The Andromeda Encounter.
Download or read book Detained written by Claire Ainslie and published by AI High. This book was released on 2019 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angry over being treated badly by humans, android Max is caught vandalizing AI High and sent to detention, where human Oliver stands up for him, forcing Max to rethink his views.