Adam's Creatures, or The Book of Robots: The Rise of Robots, Intelligent Agents and Machines that Learn from Humans - Softcover

Betts, Robert J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1542942047 ISBN 13: 9781542942041

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Robots and automatons in myth, in fiction, in movies and in reality have fascinated and frightened human beings for millennia from The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes to The Blade Runner and Terminator movies. Ideas about intelligent automated beings have appeared in novels by Isaac Asimov and even in physical reality such as the Francine automaton built by the philosopher Rene Descartes and today’s Atlas and Asimo robots. In Adam's Creatures, or The Book of Robots: The Rise of Robots, Intelligent Agents and Machines that Learn from Humans, Robert J. Betts explores the evolution of robots, automatons, artificial intelligence and also various ideas that human writers and scientists both have explored about them throughout Western history. Here one spans centuries of myth and fiction to actual facts about real robots and artificial intelligence, from the bronze automaton named Talos in The Argonautica to the Voyager space probes, industrial robots, Marvin Minsky’s perceptrons, self-driving cars and Watson. We learn also about the contributions from some of the most important personalities in computing, computer science and AI like Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy. But in Adam's Creatures: The Book of Robots, we see also that many writers even centuries and decades ago, anticipated how things can go horribly wrong when humans are careless enough to let their intelligent machines first learn the wrong things then act on them. In Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, the Monster behaved exactly like many human psychopaths today behave who, when motivated by egotism, personal offense or anger, are determined to obtain what they want through bullying or violence. In the film Metropolis the German film director Fritz Lang predicted how increased mechanization can lead to the dehumanization of human workers and that even the most attractive and human looking machine like his Maria "Doppelgaengerin" can be used to deceive human beings into doing evil and violent things. Then too everyone remembers how the Hal 9000 computer turned homicidal in the movie: 2001, A Space Odyssey. In the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the good android Data had his evil and egotistical android twin named Lor. Moreover there are very serious future dangers that lie ahead with the use of intelligent robots and AI by men and women, but not because of the development of robots and AI in itself. Rather this is because human history is replete already with examples of what happens when humans, even world leaders, use brand new technologies in the wrong ways. One day: 1. Malicious software such as viruses, worms and Trojans will become intelligent. 2. Robots with which humans have had sex can become jealous or violent. 3. Self-Driving cars suddenly can be ``possessed" by intelligent malware to kill people on roads and highways. 4. Attractive looking robot maids and butlers can be programmed by enemy countries to kill, to blackmail or to deceive foreign political leaders or diplomats. Intelligent machines learn how to act from intelligent humans. Like father, like son. In Adam's Creatures: The Book of Robots, all humanity, including robotics and AI developers, is confronted with a dire warning as to what inevitable future horrors will happen if the human race never succeeds in managing its own darker moral impulses.

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Robert J. Betts (BA, MSc.) is an operations research analyst and a researcher in applied computer science at a small nonprofit IT startup in Massachusetts. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics in 2002 (with a minor in computer science) at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a certificate in the Unix Operating System at UMASS Lowell in 2012. He began his graduate studies in a computer science/IT program at UMASS Lowell then completed his graduate studies in information technology at Southern New Hampshire University where in 2015 he obtained his Master of Science degree in information technology with a specialization in relational database theory, design and development. Mister Betts has been writing Unix/Linux shell scripts and FORTRAN and C programs on Vax/VMS mainframes, on Unix System V and on various Linux and Windows platforms since 1979 and is well familiar with computer programming and computer evolution from the early days of keypunch machines, punched cards and batch processing with FORTRAN 77 to the modern PC, laptop, server technology, cloud applications and virtualization. Robert Betts also has been a volunteer tutor in undergraduate mathematics and computer science since 2002.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1542942047
• ISBN 13: 9781542942041
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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