Binding: Hardcover
Description: The latest developments in robotics and artificial intelligence and a preview of the coming decades based on research and interviews with the world's foremost experts. If there's one universal trait among humans it's our social nature. The craving to connect is universal compelling and frequently irresistible. This concept is central to Robots and the People Who Love Them. Socially interactive robots will soon transform friendship work home life love healthcare warfare education and nearly every nook and cranny of modern life. This book is an exploration of how we the most gregarious creatures in the food chain could be changed by social robots. On the other hand it considers how we will remain the same and asks how human nature will express itself when confronted by a new class of beings created in our own image. Drawing upon recent research in the development of social robots including how people react to them how in our minds the boundaries between the real and the unreal are routinely blurred when we interact with them and how their feigned emotions evoke our real ones science writer Eve Herold takes readers through the gamut of what it will be like to live with social robots and still hold on to our humanity. This is the perfect book for anyone interested in the latest developments in social robots and the intersection of human nature and artificial intelligence and robotics and what it means for our future.
Title: Robots And The People Who Love Them
Author(s): Herold Eve
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250122209
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 1/9/2024
Category: Artificial Intelligence