March of the Machines: The Breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence - Softcover

Warwick, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252072235 ISBN 13: 9780252072239

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2004

Synopsis

While horror films and science fiction have repeatedly warned of robots running amok, Kevin Warwick takes the threats out of the realm of fiction and into the real world, truly giving us something to worry about.

Meeting skeptics head on, Warwick goes beyond his penetrating attacks on their assumptions and prejudices about what should be considered as intelligence to reveal what he has already achieved: building robots that communicate in their own language, share experiences, teach each other lessons, and behave as they wish with regard to human beings.

Part history of robotics and part futurism, March of the Machines surveys the substantial advances made in artificial intelligence over the past century while looking ahead to an increasingly uneasy relationship between humans and their creations.

About this title

About the Author

Kevin Warwick is professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, UK. He is the author of numerous books on a wide variety of subjects including robotics, information technology, biomedicine, and ethics, and is deeply engaged with advances in neural implants.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252072235
• ISBN 13: 9780252072239
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320