Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots - Couverture souple

Markoff, John

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ISBN 10 : 0062266691 ISBN 13 : 9780062266699

Editeur : Ecco, 2016

Synopsis

“Highlights the compelling contrast between AI and intelligence amplification. He chronicles the fascinating and often antagonistic evolution of these fields since 1956, when both terms were coined.” -Nature

As robots are increasingly integrated into modern society—on the battlefield and the road, in business, education, and health—Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times science writer John Markoff searches for an answer to one of the most important questions of our age: will these machines help us, or will they replace us?

In the past decade alone, Google introduced us to driverless cars, Apple debuted a personal assistant that we keep in our pockets, and an Internet of Things connected the smaller tasks of everyday life to the farthest reaches of the internet. There is little doubt that robots are now an integral part of society, and cheap sensors and powerful computers will ensure that, in the coming years, these robots will soon act on their own. This new era offers the promise of immense computing power, but it also reframes a question first raised more than half a century ago, at the birth of the intelligent machine: Will we control these systems, or will they control us?

In Machines of Loving Grace, New York Times reporter John Markoff, the first reporter to cover the World Wide Web, offers a sweeping history of the complicated and evolving relationship between humans and computers. Over the recent years, the pace of technological change has accelerated dramatically, reintroducing this difficult ethical quandary with newer and far weightier consequences. As Markoff chronicles the history of automation, from the birth of the artificial intelligence and intelligence augmentation communities in the 1950s, to the modern day brain trusts at Google and Apple in Silicon Valley, and on to the expanding tech corridor between Boston and New York, he traces the different ways developers have addressed this fundamental problem and urges them to carefully consider the consequences of their work.

We are on the verge of a technological revolution, Markoff argues, and robots will profoundly transform the way our lives are organized. Developers must now draw a bright line between what is human and what is machine, or risk upsetting the delicate balance between them.

In Machines of Loving Grace, readers will discover:

• Origins of AI: Traces the origins of artificial intelligence and intelligence augmentation from the 1950s and '60s through today's tech giants at Google, Apple, and beyond
• The Ethical Stakes: Examines the central ethical question of our time: if humans delegate decisions to machines, who bears responsibility for the consequences
• Straight from the Source: Draws on interviews with scientists, entrepreneurs, ethicists, and hackers who who shaped the fields of robotics and AI
• A Call to Action: Urges readers to remember that we still have the opportunity to design ourselves into the future — before it's too late

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Markoff has been a technology and science reporter at the New York Times since 1988. He was part of the team of Times reporters that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting and is the author of What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer. He lives in San Francisco, California.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

This new era offers the promise of immensely powerful machines, but it also reframes a question first raised more than half a century ago, when the intelligent machine was born. Will we control these systems, or will they control us?

In this sweeping history of the complicated and evolving relationship between humans and computers, Markoff traces the different ways developers have addressed this fundamental tension between man and machine and the ethical quandaries raised as the pace of technological change accelerates dramatically. We are on the brink of the next stage of the computer revolution, and robots have already begun to transform modern life. Designers must draw a bright line between what is human and what is machine. We must decide to design ourselves into our future—or risk being excluded from it altogether.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ecco
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0062266691
• ISBN 13: 9780062266699
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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