Robot

Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind

Bibliographic Data

ID9829943
AuthorsEliot A Cohen (corresponding author), Hans P Moravec
Year1999
Volume78
Issue3
Pages131
Publication date1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofRobot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind, Hans Moravec, 2000
VenueForeign Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/20049291
OpenAlexW2013198160
LanguageEN

From the Publisher: In this mind-bending new book, Hans Moravec takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride packed with startling predictions. He tells us, for instance, that in the not-too-distant future, an army of robots will displace workers, causing massive, unprecedented unemployment. But then, says Moravec, a period of very comfortable existence will follow, as humans benefit from a fully automated economy. And eventually, as machines evolve far beyond humanity, robots will supplant us. But if Moravec predicts the end of the domination by human beings, his is not a bleak vision. Far from railing against a future in which machines rule the world, Moravec embraces it, taking the startling view that intelligent robots will actually be our evolutionary heirs

Aesthetics · Cognitive science · Political science · Robot · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychology · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life

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