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Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind



The author of this piece, Julian Dibbell, writes about a professor, Moravec, who has a theory that robots will become smarter than humans and eventually take over the world. Dibbell writes about the different steps that Moravec predicts will happen in order for this to happen, and how they are all plausible and could actually happen in the next 40 years. He also writes about Moravec's last chapter... more details
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  • The author discusses a professor, Moravec, who has a theory that robots will become smarter than humans and eventually take over the world
  • The different steps that Moravec predicts will happen in order for this to happen are all plausible and could actually happen in the next 40 years
  • Moravec's last chapter is a mixture of science and metaphysics


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Author Hans Moravec
Format Hardcover
ISBN 9780195116304
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer Oxford University Press, Usa
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The author of this piece, Julian Dibbell, writes about a professor, Moravec, who has a theory that robots will become smarter than humans and eventually take over the world. Dibbell writes about the different steps that Moravec predicts will happen in order for this to happen, and how they are all plausible and could actually happen in the next 40 years. He also writes about Moravec's last chapter, which is a mixture of science and metaphysics.

This is science fiction without the fiction--and more mind-bending than anything you ever saw on Star Trek. Moravec, a professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, envisions a not-too-distant future in which robots of superhuman intelligence have picked up the evolutionary baton from their human creators and headed out into space to colonize the universe. This isn't anything that a million sci-fi paperbacks haven't already envisioned. The difference lies in Moravec's practical-minded mapping of the technological, economic, and social steps that could lead to that vision. Starting with the modest accomplishments of contemporary robotics research, he projects a likely course for the next 40 years of robot development, predicting the rise of superintelligent, creative, emotionally complex cyberbeings and the end of human labor by the middle of the next century. After Moravec makes this point, his projections start to get really wild: robot corporations will take up residence in outer space with rogue cyborgs; planet-size robots will cruise the solar system looking for smaller bots to assimilate; and eventually every atom in the entire galaxy will be transformed into data-storage space, with a full-scale simulation of human civilization running as a subroutine somewhere. His last chapter, which mingles the latest in avant-garde physics with hints of Borges's most intoxicating metaphysical conceits, is a breathtaking piece of hallucinatory eschatology. Moravec concludes by reminding us that even the wildest long-range predictions about the technological future never turn out to be as unhinged as they should have been. --Julian Dibbell
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