Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us

摘要: From the Publisher: Flesh and Machines explores startlingly reciprocal connection between humans their technological brethren, explains how this relationship is being redefined as develop increasingly complex machines. The impetus to build machines that exhibit lifelike behaviors stretches back centuries, but for last fifteen years much of work has been done in Rodney Brooks’s laboratory at MIT. His goal not simply are like alter our perception potential capabilities robots. Our current attitude toward intelligent robots, he asserts, a reflection own view ourselves. In Flesh Machines, Brooks challenges by suggesting human nature can be seen possess essential characteristics machine. instinctive rejection idea, believes, itself conditioned response: we have programmed ourselves believe “tribal specialness” proof uniqueness. Provocative, persuasive, compelling, unprecedented, presents vision future selves.