Kevin Warwick has created robots with the brain power of a wasp, and may soon have built robots which are not only more intelligent than humans in some ways, but also superior in their practical skills. In this book he argues that humans may be at the mercy of these life forms, and be treated in the same way as humans treat animals today. He proposes that there is an urgent need for an anti-proliferation treaty to prevent these and other even more horrifying scenarios.

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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd (3 Sept. 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0099703017
ISBN-13: 978-0099703013
Package Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm
Average Customer Review: 2 customer reviews
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,029,867 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #655 in Books > Computers & Internet > Computer Science > Algorithms
- #1056 in Books > Computers & Internet > Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence
- #9493 in Books > Computers & Internet > Computer Science > Programming

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D Major

Highly readable and enjoyable

19 January 2013

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I'm surprised there aren't more reviews of this book. Kevin Warwick's writing is very like his speech when talking (watch him on Youtube), he's very direct and no-nonsense. This book pre-dates the Matrix trilogy films but in many ways deals with the real science behind robotics and AI which is every bit as thought provoking and portentous as the Matrix trilogy is for AI. Warwick sweeps aside the past failures of AI to deliver on a very limiting set of objectives based on modelling human intelligence. He suggests instead looking at what different kinds of built entities that exhibit behaviour can achieve, and more scarily where it may lead. I am currently reading his more recent account of AI and it shares much of the same style as this book. It is important in scientific work to retain that sense of awe and fascination that got you into it in the first place and Kevin Warwick's book helps do just that.

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Barbara. Barron

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21 December 2010

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Kevin Warwick is a highly erudite and knowledgeable scientist who is (or was)the robotics professor at Readimg University. He makes a compelling argument on the dangers of the continuing development of Artificial Intelligence, (which will undoubtedly go on because as Warwick says "We can, and we will". it's many years since I read his book and I want to do so again, and also buy it for my children, I think that now they are responsible adults they need to know of this threat that could well sideswipe us into some sort of living hell, or death. There have been many scientific advances since this foresighted book was written, and some popular films made on this very subject, It hasnn't gone amiss from public consciousnessand that these films are in some way pre-emptive of a possible outcome regarding the extinction of Homo Sapiens by machine intelligence, which is the subject of this very powerful book. I'll be interested to see how much closer we may be to this threatening disaster, by looking at modern advances regarding robtics and AI. (Although I have my doubts that a lot of data is available)
To all those who are interested in the dangers we may be in regarding A.I. this is a must read.

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