Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind
- ISBN-10
- 0195136306
- ISBN-13
- 9780195136302
- Series
- Robot
- Category
- Computers
- Pages
- 227
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press on Demand
- Author
- Hans P. Moravec
Description
Moravec predicts a near-future in which robots will not only attain human levels of intelligence, they will also first displace human workers and then completely supplant humanity.
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