| Moravec, H. Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence. Harvard, 1988. |
....galactic exploration. Introduction. The descendants of Mankind will not forever remain in the cradle of the solar system. Eventually, if we survive the multiple hazards of a young technological civilisation, there will inevitably come the great diaspora of our descendants, who (according to [Moravec 1988]) may not even be human by our present standards. Freeman Dyson [Dyson 1979] gives three reasons why, quite apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first reason is garbage disposal; we need to transfer industrial processes into space so that the Earth may ....
H. Moravec. Mind Children: The future of robot and human intelligence. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1988.
.... to experience them, they have to be the experience of somebody and I do not believe that there is somebody present in these primitive agents for whom they could be experiences (interestingly, there are people who are willing to ascribe genuine emotions to even very unemotional behaviors, see [13], for example) states of affairs in the environment, whereas the former cannot. Unfortunately, inner states have mostly been used to keep track of states of affairs that are external to the agent (and most of the examples in standard AI textbooks use such external factors) Much less attention ....
Moravec, H.: Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA (1988)
.... between the internal operations of the computers and the regulatory systems in living beings (for example, the homeostatic control of body temperature and blood glucose levels within humans) and so became inspired to build machines which could learn and which would act as though they were alive [Mor88, pages 6 17] Due to a combination of representational and technological difficulties, the field of cybernetics would thrive for less than two decades. With the arrival of substantially more powerful digital computers and thus the ability to perform problem solving of unprecedented ....
.... robotics projects would soon begin to emerge at other institutions; most notably the Shakey project led by Charles Rosen and Nils Nilsson at the Stanford Research Institute, and the Cart project of John McCarthy, Les Earnest, and Hans Moravec at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory [Mor88, pages 14 20] While many industrial robots have recently found their way into a number of reasonably well defined (and typically non mobile) niches, progress in robotics toward creating highly versatile, programmable, intelligent machines which can systematically extract and manipulate ....
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Hans Moravec. Mind Children - The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA, 1988.
....will have to be handled on a case by case basis, as each new kind of replicating technology will have its own special properties. There are many in the artificial life movement who envision a beautiful future in which artificial life replaces organic life, and expands out into the universe [49, 50, 62, 63, 64]. The motives vary from a desire for immortality to a vision of converting virtually all matter in the universe to living matter. It is argued that this transition from organic to metallic based life is the inevitable and natural next step in evolution. The naturalness of this step is argued by ....
Moravec, Hans. 1988. Mind Children: the future of robot and human intelligence. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
....and it shows why this pace of change is inevitable. Personal computers are not yet as common as dishwashers, but that is only a few years away. It is hard to grasp just how much computers have improved. Unlike any other technology ever, computers have improved 10 millionfold in the past 50 years [36]; in that time computers have gone from the lab to the lap. In terms of size alone, in 40 years computers shrank from large rooms, to cars, to refrigerators, to ovens, to microwave ovens, to record players, to large books, to magazines. They have stopped at magazine size only because if they were ....
Hans Moravec; Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence, 62--65, Harvard University Press, 1988. REFERENCES 64
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