Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to Our Humanity in an Age of Social Robots by Herold, Eve

Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to Our Humanity in an Age of Social Robots

The latest developments in robotics and artificial intelligence and a preview of the coming decades, based on...
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Author: Eve Herold
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Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to Our Humanity in an Age of Social Robots by Herold, Eve

Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to Our Humanity in an Age of Social Robots

$55.14

Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to Our Humanity in an Age of Social Robots

$55.14
Author: Eve Herold
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The latest developments in robotics and artificial intelligence and a preview of the coming decades, based on research and interviews with the world's foremost experts.

If there's one universal trait among humans, it's our social nature. The craving to connect is universal, compelling, and frequently irresistible. This concept is central to Robots and the People Who Love Them. Socially interactive robots will soon transform friendship, work, home life, love, warfare, education, and nearly every nook and cranny of modern life. This book is an exploration of how we, the most gregarious creatures in the food chain, could be changed by social robots. On the other hand, it considers how we will remain the same, and asks how human nature will express itself when confronted by a new class of beings created in our own image.

Drawing upon recent research in the development of social robots, including how people react to them, how in our minds the boundaries between the real and the unreal are routinely blurred when we interact with them, and how their feigned emotions evoke our real ones, science writer Eve Herold takes readers through the gamut of what it will be like to live with social robots and still hold on to our humanity. This is the perfect book for anyone interested in the latest developments in social robots and the intersection of human nature and artificial intelligence and robotics, and what it means for our future.

Author: Eve Herold
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 01/09/2024
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250122209


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2023 pg. 19

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