Summary: The study of artificial intelligence and robotics offer the enormous potential of continuing the wide-reaching debate about how men and machines live together, now and in the future. The notion that a machine can respond to its environment, make decisions, and learn, has been the stuff of science fiction for hundreds of years. This work examines the key principles and concepts behind the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salem Press, A division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. 2018
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Summary: "If you have a smartphone, you have AI in your pocket. It's everywhere online. And it has already changed how doctors diagnose disease as well as how you interact with friends or read the news. But In Rule of the Robots, Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur Martin Ford argues that true disruption is yet to come, as AI ceases to be a tool applied to specific problems, and becomes a utility: the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 006.301 FORSummary: Looks inside the DARPA Robotics Challenge, a national competition in the design of rescue robots. Examines recent advances in the development of robots instilled with human skills. Offers speculation upon ways in which robots will become part of everyday life and the impact they will have on the job market.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: "In late January 2006, a young robotocist on the way to Google headquarters lost an overnight bag on a flight somewhere between Dallas and Las Vegas. In it was a fully functional head of the android replica of Philip K. Dick, cult science fiction writer and counter-culture guru. It has never been recovered. In a story that echoes some of the most paranoid fantasies of a Philip K. Dick novel,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.892 DUFAdams, William D.
Summary: Robots are all around you. As robotics technology improves, robots are poised to take on even more important jobs, making your life easier, safer, and cooler! A robot has to have some sort of computing ability to do its job. But how smart are robots, really? What do they know and what can they do? Can they learn like us--and could they ever get too smart?
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.8 ADABrown, Dale
Summary: Recruited in the wake of a miraculous rescue into the FBI to help track down criminals behind a massive financial scam, a robotics genius is swept up by a dangerous conspiracy that compels him to unleash the most powerful cyber weapons the world has ever seen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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Summary: "Daniela Rus, a leading roboticist and computer scientist, explores how we can use a new generation of smart machines to help humankind. There is a robotics revolution underway. A record 3.1 million robots are working in factories right now, doing everything from assembling computers to packing goods and monitoring air quality and performance. A far greater number of smart machines impact our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: Create the next generation of AUTONOMOUS ANDROIDS! Construct self-governing 'droids that display physiologically correct behaviors. Co-written by experts in the fields of robotics, artificial intelligence, and medicine, Androids: Build Your Own Lifelike Robots features low-cost DIY projects that translate human physiology into cybernetics. Teach your creations to maneuver with an arsenal of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw Hill Education 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.892 BERSummary: M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a lifelike doll that's programmed to be a child's greatest companion and a parent's greatest ally. Designed by Gemma, a brilliant roboticist, M3GAN can listen, watch, and learn as it plays the role of friend and teacher, playmate and protector. When Gemma becomes the unexpected caretaker of her eight-year-old niece, she decides to give the girl a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Robots that talk and act human are the ultimate artificial intelligence (AI) turning point. We are closer than ever to making it reality. Learn how robots have changed over time and how these advances bring complicated ethical issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 006.3 KLETroup, Roxanne
Summary: Robots and AI is a beautifully designed reader all about robots that work, explore, help and rescue humans, and some of the amazing scientists who have created them. The engaging text has been carefully leveled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about microbots, mega bots...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Until this decade, the question of immortality was the stuff of science fiction, but now experts in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics suggest it will indeed be possible. This cinematic documentary explores the latest technological advancements in AI, robotics and biotech, and poses the question: what is the essence of the human mind, and can this be replicated? Or even more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: What kind of work might be taken over by artificial intelligence (AI)? From doing dangerous jobs to helping to create products, the ideas are endless. Learn how the future of work might change because of AI and some of the ethical dilemmas that come along with rapidly changing technology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: An imprint of Capstone Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 006.3 KLEEnz, Tammy
Summary: Learn how AI artificial intelligence has transformed entertainment and about the ethical issues of this emerging technology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 006.3 ENZRees, Martin
Summary: Humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various outcomes--good and bad--are possible. Yet our approach to the future is characterized by short-term thinking, polarizing debates, alarmist rhetoric, and pessimism. In this short, exhilarating book, renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin Rees...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2018
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Summary: "Artificial intelligence leads to shockingly real danger for the Gray Man in this latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. A car accident in Japan. A drowning in Seoul. A home invasion in Boston. Someone is killing the world's leading experts on robotics and artificial intelligence. Is it a tech company trying to eliminate the competition or is it something even more sinister?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREEnz, Tammy
Summary: Artificial intelligence (AI) is already part of our lives. AI can keep the refrigerator stocked and find our favorite music. Cars already brake automatically to avoid crashes and self-driving cars get closer every day. Learn how AI might change how we live and travel, along with the ethical dilemmas we face with a rapidly changing technology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: An imprint of Capstone Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 006.3 ENZShelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Summary: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old author during a cold and rainy summer on the shores of Lake Geneva, the dramatic tale of Victor Frankenstein and his stitched-together creature can been read as the ultimate parable of scientific hubris. Victor, "the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHENakamura, May
Summary: Learn all about the careers you could have if you love robots in this fascinating nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read, part of a series that gives readers a sneak peek at how they can turn their passions into careers!Do you love robots? Is your family's robot vacuum your favorite thing in the house? Then you could be a robotics mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, or systems engineer when you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE NAKFelix, Rebecca
Summary: Readers will examine the history of artificial intelligence, leading scientists in the field, the Three Laws of robots, the singularity, Sophia the robot, and more before deciding for themselves!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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Summary: Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic -- was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019