Hans Moravec (1948 – ) is a faculty member at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University and the chief scientist at Seegrid Corporation. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford in 1980 and is known for his work on robotics, artificial intelligence, and writings on the impact of technology, Continue reading Summary of Hans Moravec’s, Robot: Mere Machine To Transcendent Mind
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Daniel Dennett: In Defense of Robotic Consciousness
Daniel Dennett (1942 – ) is an American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist whose research is in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. Continue reading Daniel Dennett: In Defense of Robotic Consciousness
Robots and the Economy
A recent post briefly mentioned the computer scientist Marshall Brain’s thoughts on robotics and the future of the economy. Brain penned these prescient thoughts more than ten years ago Continue reading Robots and the Economy