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Living with Robots recounts a foundational shift in the field of robotics, from artificial intelligence to artificial empathy, and foreshadows an inflection point in human evolution. Today's robots engage with human beings in socially meaningful ways, as therapists, trainers, mediators, caregivers, and companions. Social robotics is grounded in artificial intelligence, but the field's most probing questions explore the nature of the very real human emotions that social robots are designed to emulate. Social roboticists conduct their inquiries out of necessity--every robot they design incorporates and tests a number of hypotheses about human relationships. Paul Dumouchel and Luisa Damiano show that as roboticists become adept at programming artificial empathy into their creations, they are abandoning the conventional conception of human emotions as discrete, private, internal experiences. Rather, they are reconceiving emotions as a continuum between two actors who coordinate their affective behavior in real time. Rethinking the role of sociability in emotion has also led the field of social robotics to interrogate a number of human ethical assumptions, and to formulate a crucial political insight: there are simply no universal human characteristics for social robots to emulate. What we have instead is a plurality of actors, human and nonhuman, in noninterchangeable relationships. As Living with Robots shows, for social robots to be effective, they must be attentive to human uniqueness and exercise a degree of social autonomy. More than mere automatons, they must become social actors, capable of modifying the rules that govern their interplay with humans.--

Philosophy --- Robotics --- Androids --- Artificial intelligence. --- Social aspects.

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Les créatures artificielles peuplent une zone particulière de notre imaginaire, nourrie de vieilles légendes. Ce livre veut montrer qu'un lien existe entre toutes ces créatures, de la statue animée de Pygmalion au monstre de Frankenstein, en passant par les ordinateurs intelligents du XXe siècle. Les créatures artificielles tendent à l'homme un miroir où il est confronté à sa propre image.

Artificial life in art. --- Androids in art. --- Conscious automata in art. --- Arts.

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Textmaschinenko¨rper ist ein Neologismus, aufgebaut aus drei Lexemen, die, auf unterschiedliche Weise zu Neukombinationen verbunden - Textmaschine, Maschinenko¨rper, Textko¨rper -, jeweils das Sprachliche, Mechanische oder Leibliche betonen. Das Hyperonym der einzelnen Wo¨rter ist indes Konstruktion: Texte, Maschinen und Ko¨rper sind Artefakte, deren Herstellungsgeschichte und Wirkung zwar sehr unterschiedlich sein kann, aber deren Signum der menschlichen Konstruktion sie jeweils zu Elementen der Kulturpraxis im weitesten Sinn macht und deren Bedeutung immer wieder neu erfasst werden muss. Die unter dem Titel "Textmaschinenko¨rper" gesammelten Aufsa¨tze befassen sich mit der Darstellung des Maschinenko¨rpers in literarischen, filmischen und digitalen Texten. Sie analysieren Ko¨rper-, Geschlechter- und Menschenkonstruktionen, die auf einer Skala von Medien, vom schriftlich fixierten literarischen Text bis zur digitalen Vorstellung im Computerspiel, repra¨sentiert und thematisiert werden. Der Band pra¨sentiert erstmals dezidiert genderorientierte Analysen zum Motiv des ku¨nstlichen Menschen vor allem zur deutschsprachigen Literatur - von Automaten in der Dichtung des Mittelalters u¨ber Marionetten, Puppen und Automaten in der Romantik und in der Literatur des fin de sie`cle bis hin zu aktuellen Reflexionen u¨ber Ko¨rper, Technik und Reproduktion - und zur Variation des Motivs im Film des 20. Jahrhunderts - von Metropolis bis Matrix.

German literature --- Thematology --- Androids in literature --- Androiïden in de literatuur --- Androïdes dans la littérature --- Automata in literature --- Automaten in de literatuur --- Automates dans la littérature --- Humanoid robots in literature --- Humanoids in literature --- Robots dans la littérature --- Robots in de literatuur --- Robots in literature --- Androids in literature. --- Androids.

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Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture: Reinventing Yesterday's Slave with Tomorrow's Robot is an interdisciplinary study that seeks to investigate and speculate about the relationship between technology and human nature through popular culture. Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture seeks to gain a better understanding of how slaves are created and justified in the imaginations of a supposedly civilized nation. It is a timely and creative analysis of the ways in which we domesticate technology and the manner in which the history of s

Technology --- Technology in popular culture. --- Slavery --- Slavery in art. --- Androids --- Androids in art. --- Humanoid robots --- Humanoids (Androids) --- Robots --- Virtual humans (Artificial intelligence) --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Popular culture --- Social aspects. --- Enslaved persons

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The Melancholy Android is a psychological study of the impulses behind the creation of androids. Exploring three imaginative figures—the mummy, the golem, and the automaton—and their appearances in myth, religion, literature, and film, Eric G. Wilson tracks the development of android-building and examines the lure of artificial doubles untroubled by awareness of self. Drawing from the works of philosophers Ficino, Kleist, Freud, and Jung; writers Goethe, Coleridge, Shelley, and Poe; and movies such as Metropolis, The Mummy, and Blade Runner, this book not only offers a range of sites from which to analyze the relationship between mind and machine, but also considers a pressing paradoxical dilemma—loving machines we want to hate.

Androids. --- Melancholy. --- Mind and body. --- Body and mind --- Body and soul (Philosophy) --- Human body --- Mind --- Mind-body connection --- Mind-body relations --- Mind-cure --- Somatopsychics --- Brain --- Dualism --- Philosophical anthropology --- Holistic medicine --- Mental healing --- Parousia (Philosophy) --- Phrenology --- Psychophysiology --- Self --- Humanoid robots --- Humanoids (Androids) --- Robots --- Virtual humans (Artificial intelligence) --- Dejection --- Emotions --- Depression, Mental --- Sadness --- Psychological aspects