The reasonable robot : artificial intelligence and the law /
"The concept of AI has ancient origins. Around the 8th Century BCE, the Greek poet Homer wrote in the Iliad about Hephaestus, the God of fire and a skilled inventor. He built golden automata, or self-operating machines, to help him work. Not only did Hephaestus build attendants for himself with...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2020
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| Summary: | "The concept of AI has ancient origins. Around the 8th Century BCE, the Greek poet Homer wrote in the Iliad about Hephaestus, the God of fire and a skilled inventor. He built golden automata, or self-operating machines, to help him work. Not only did Hephaestus build attendants for himself with "intelligence in their hearts" and the "appearance [of] living young women", he also built autonomous vehicles that could travel to and from the home of the gods, and a lethal autonomous weapon system named Talos that patrolled the beaches of Crete"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes index |
| Physical Description: | viii, 156 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781108472128 1108472125 9781108459020 1108459021 |