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Flesh and machines : how robots will change us

The director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab speculates about the future of humankind as it explores the relationship between humans and technologically engineered robots and examines the vast capabilities of such machines.

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  • "Flesh and Machines explores the startlingly reciprocal connection between humans and their technological brethren, and explains how this relationship is being redefined as humans develop increasingly complex machines. The impetus to build machines that exhibit lifelike behaviors stretches back centuries, but for the last fifteen years much of this work has been done in Rodney Brookss laboratory at MIT. His goal is not simply to build machines that are like humans but to alter our perception of the potential capabilities of robots. Our current attitude toward intelligent robots, he asserts, is simply a reflection of our own view of ourselves. In Flesh and Machines, Brooks challenges that view by suggesting that human nature can be seen to possess the essential characteristics of a machine. Our instinctive rejection of that idea, he believes, is itself a conditioned response: we have programmed ourselves to believe in our tribal specialness as proof of our uniqueness. Provocative, persuasive, compelling, and unprecedented, Flesh and Machines presents a vision of our future and our future selves."
  • "The director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab speculates about the future of humankind as it explores the relationship between humans and technologically engineered robots and examines the vast capabilities of such machines."
  • "The director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab speculates about the future of humankind as it explores the relationship between humans and technologically engineered robots and examines the vast capabilities of such machines."@en
  • "Beschouwing over de groeiende betekenis van robots in het dagelijks leven, onder meer als intelligente lichaamsprotheses."

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  • "Cuerpos y máquinas : de los robots humanos a los hombres robots"
  • "Cuerpos y máquinas : de los robots humanos a los hombres robots"@es
  • "De kunstmatige mens : hoe machines ons veranderen"
  • "Flesh and Machines"
  • "Menschmaschinen : wie uns die Zukunftstechnologien neu erschaffen"
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  • "Flesh and machines : how robots will change us"
  • "Flesh and machines : robots and people"@en
  • "Flesh and machines : robots and people"
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