Research Catalog

Title

Living with robots / Paul Dumouchel, Luisa Damiano ; translated by Malcolm DeBevoise.

Author

Dumouchel, Paul, 1951-

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Damiano, Luisa
• DeBevoise, M. B.

Description

xv, 262 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

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.--

Uniform Title

Vivre avec les robots. English

Alternative Title

Vivre avec les robots.

Subject

• Robotics > Social aspects
• Androids > Social aspects
• Artificial intelligence

Note

• Originally published as Vivre avec les robots: Essai sur l'empathie artificielle, ©2016 by Éditions du Seuil.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The substitute -- Animals, machines, cyborgs, and the taxi -- Mind, emotions, and artificial empathy -- The other otherwise -- From moral and lethal machines to synthetic ethics.

Call Number

JFD 19-1189

ISBN

• 9780674971738
• 0674971736

LCCN

• 2017012580
• 40027594362

OCLC

981980863

Author

Dumouchel, Paul, 1951- author.

Title

Living with robots / Paul Dumouchel, Luisa Damiano ; translated by Malcolm DeBevoise.

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH.

Added Author

Damiano, Luisa, author.

DeBevoise, M. B., translator.

Translation Of:

Translation of: Dumouchel, Paul, 1951- Vivre avec les robots. Paris : Éditions du Seuil, [2016] 9782021143614 (DLC) 2015482531 (OCoLC)939200157

Other Standard Identifier

40027594362

Research Call Number

JFD 19-1189