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Robots: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Robots: What Everyone Needs to Know®
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2000年代に入ってから、静かな革命が進行中です。いま、家庭では、ある程度の知能を持った何百万台もの自律型ロボットが、主に掃除機として使われています。街角には、自律型ロボットにほかならない自動運転車が現れ始めています。産業界や大学では、より知的な自律移動型次世代ロボットを開発するための大きな取り組みが行われていて、それに伴い、メディアでは超高性能ロボットの出現を懸念する記事や、ほとんどの仕事がロボットに奪われるといった、煽り立てるような記事が相次いでいます。
本書では、ロボット工学とその現状についてバランスよく、そして幅広く紹介し、この分野がどのように生まれ、どこへ向かおうとしているのかを分析します。ロボット工学の歴史と大衆文化の複雑な関係性からはじめ、基礎となる技術については理工系の専門知識を持たない一般読者にもわかる形で議論を進め、ロボットが現時点でできることの限界と、将来的にはできるようになるかもしれないことを説明します。当然ながら、生命体のような性質を持つロボットは大きな関心を集めています。また、「シンギュラリティ」を心配する必要はないのだとしても、あらゆる分野で一定の知能を持ったロボットの利用が広がる中で、確実に考慮せねばならない問題が起きています。既に生じている倫理上の問題や、幅広い社会的・政治的課題、そして将来もたらされるかもしれない、より大きな問題を考察します。ロボットにできること、できないこと、そしてロボットが私たちの生活に浸透しつつあることが何を意味するのかについての概説書です。
    

  • A quick and accessible introduction to the field of robotics
  • Discusses the technology underlying robotics, and gives insights into how robots work
  • Uncovers the surprising origins of modern robotics in entertainment, advertising, and neurobiology
  • Debunks some of the myths about the imminent development of super-intelligent robots taking over the world
  • Explains what current robots really can do, and what they can't, and explores the ethical issues that are generated by our use of robots

    
A concise, accessible introduction to robots, what they can do, what they can't, and what their increasing encroachment into our lives might mean for us
  
Since the turn of the millennium a quiet revolution has been underway. Millions of autonomous robots with some level of intelligence are now in domestic use, mainly as vacuum cleaners. Driverless cars - which are nothing less than autonomous robots - are starting to appear on our streets. There is a huge effort underway in industry and universities to develop the next generation of more intelligent, autonomous, mobile robots. Accompanying these arrivals has been a steady stream of inflammatory articles in the media raising concerns over the impending spectre of super-intelligent robots, along with stories about how most jobs will soon be lost to robots.
   
Here, using the Question-and-Answer format, Phil Husbands gives a balanced and broad introduction to robotics and the current state of the field, analysing where it has come from, and where it might go in the future. He begins with the history of robotics and its complex relationship with popular culture, and then moves on to discuss the technology underlying robots in an engaging, non-technical way, exploring the limits of what robots can actually do now and what they might be able to do in the future. Naturally these machines, which often seem to display life-like properties, are attracting great attention. Do they pose a threat or an unprecedented opportunity? And although the 'singularity' may not be something to worry about, there are certainly ethical issues needing consideration as robots with some intelligence are used increasingly across many sectors. Husbands considers both these ethical problems and also the wider socio-political challenges that robots are already creating, and the larger ones they might bring in the future.

目次: 

Preface
1:Robots are Here
2:The Basics
3:Some History
4:Inside the Machine
5:Robot Fantasies: Robots in Popular Culture
6:Intelligence, Super-Intelligence and Cyborgs
7:Robots at Work
8:Robot Ethics
9:Robot Futures

著者について: 

Phil Husbands is Research Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sussex. He has been a leading researcher in AI, Robotics and Artificial Life for more than 30 years. He is one of the originators of the field of evolutionary robotics, was founding co-director of the Sussex Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics and has worked extensively with industry. His research is wide ranging but centres on adaptive systems in robotics, AI and neuroscience. He is also a historian of AI and cybernetics.

"The book is accessible, and readers can expect to learn much from it. Husbands has given us a historically informed introduction to robotics, rooted in technological reality and dismissing futuristic hype." -- Simon Balle, Metascience

商品情報

ISBN : 9780198845393

著者: 
Phil Husbands
ページ
208 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
141 x 209 mm
刊行日
2022年01月
シリーズ
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Robots: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Robots: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Robots: What Everyone Needs to Know®