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Robots unlimited : life in a virtual age
- Author
- Levy, David N. L.
- Title
- Robots unlimited : life in a virtual age / David Levy.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Wellesley, MA : A K Peters, 2006.
- Description
- xv, 450 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-437) and index.
- Contents
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- 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.
- Kinsey subjects
- Sex customs.
- Genre heading
- History.
- ISBN
- 1568812396 9781568812397