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Recounts a foundational shift in the field of robotics, from artificial intelligence to artificial empathy, and foreshadows an inflection point in human evolution. Today's robots engage with human beings in socially meaningful ways, as therapists, trainers, mediators, caregivers, and companions...
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Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
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| Summary: |
Recounts a foundational shift in the field of robotics, from artificial intelligence to artificial empathy, and foreshadows an inflection point in human evolution. Today's robots engage with human beings in socially meaningful ways, as therapists, trainers, mediators, caregivers, and companions. Social robotics is grounded in artificial intelligence, but the field's most probing questions explore the nature of the very real human emotions that social robots are designed to emulate. Social roboticists conduct their inquiries out of necessity--every robot they design incorporates and tests a n |
| Item Description: | Originally published as Vivre avec les robots: Essai sur l'empathie artificielle, ©2016 by Éditions du Seuil. |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780674971738 0674971736 |
| Index Number: | TJ211 |
| CLC: | TP242-05 |
| Call Number: | TP242-05/D895 |
| Contents: | The substitute -- Animals, machines, cyborgs, and the taxi -- Mind, emotions, and artificial empathy -- The other otherwise -- From moral and lethal machines to synthetic ethics. |