Good Robot, Bad Robot

Good Robot, Bad Robot
Author: Jo Ann Oravec
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2022-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031140133

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This book explores how robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance human lives but also have unsettling “dark sides.” It examines expanding forms of negativity and anxiety about robots, AI, and autonomous vehicles as our human environments are reengineered for intelligent military and security systems and for optimal workplace and domestic operations. It focuses on the impacts of initiatives to make robot interactions more humanlike and less creepy (as with domestic and sex robots). It analyzes the emerging resistances against these entities in the wake of omnipresent AI applications (such as “killer robots” and ubiquitous surveillance). It unpacks efforts by developers to have ethical and social influences on robotics and AI, and confronts the AI hype that is designed to shield the entities from criticism. The book draws from science fiction, dramaturgical, ethical, and legal literatures as well as current research agendas of corporations. Engineers, implementers, and researchers have often encountered users' fears and aggressive actions against intelligent entities, especially in the wake of deaths of humans by robots and autonomous vehicles. The book is an invaluable resource for developers and researchers in the field, as well as curious readers who want to play proactive roles in shaping future technologies.

Good Robot, Bad Robot

Good Robot, Bad Robot
Author: Jo Ann Oravec
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre:
ISBN: 9783031140143

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This book explores how robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance human lives but also have unsettling "dark sides." It examines expanding forms of negativity and anxiety about robots, AI, and autonomous vehicles as our human environments are reengineered for intelligent military and security systems and for optimal workplace and domestic operations. It focuses on the impacts of initiatives to make robot interactions more humanlike and less creepy (as with domestic and sex robots). It analyzes the emerging resistances against these entities in the wake of omnipresent AI applications (such as "killer robots" and ubiquitous surveillance). It unpacks efforts by developers to have ethical and social influences on robotics and AI, and confronts the AI hype that is designed to shield the entities from criticism. The book draws from science fiction, dramaturgical, ethical, and legal literatures as well as current research agendas of corporations. Engineers, implementers, and researchers have often encountered users' fears and aggressive actions against intelligent entities, especially in the wake of deaths of humans by robots and autonomous vehicles. The book is an invaluable resource for developers and researchers in the field, as well as curious readers who want to play proactive roles in shaping future technologies. Jo Ann Oravec (MA, MS, MBA, PhD) is a full professor in the College of Business and Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (Department of Information Technology and Supply Chain Management), as well as the Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies, UW-Madison. Her publications include Virtual Individuals, Virtual Groups. She was the first chair of the Privacy Council of the State of Wisconsin. .

Bad Robot!

Bad Robot!
Author: Elizabeth Dale
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2021-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1728437431

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Rob the robot is misbehaving. He doesn't stop, even when Max and his mom tell him to. With carefully leveled text, young readers can follow along and find out what he does next!

The Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot

The Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot
Author: Margaret McNamara
Publisher: Random House Studio
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2011-09-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375866892

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Introduce kids to the planets and solar system in this fractured fairy tale retelling of the classic The Three Little Pigs. Parents and children alike will adore this out-of-this-world story, which is set in outer space! GREEP BOINK MEEP! The three little aliens are happily settling into their new homes when the Big Bad Robot flies in to crack and smack and whack their houses down! A chase across the solar system follows in this humorous and visually stunning book from Margaret McNamara (How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?) and Mark Fearing (The Book that Eats People). The endpapers even include a labeled diagram of all the planets.

Winnie's Big Bad Robot

Winnie's Big Bad Robot
Author: Valerie Thomas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2015-02-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9780192738745

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Winnie the Witch is very pleased when she turns her cardboard robot into a real one. Beep, beep! But when the naughty robot takes Winnie's wand, things start to get totally out of control. It's up to Wilbur, Winnie's lovable cat, to stop the magical mayhem and save the day. With an accompanying CD for entertaining listening!

Bad Robot

Bad Robot
Author: John Benedict
Publisher:
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781728727516

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BAD ROBOT immerses the reader deeply into the high-tech world of robotic surgery and highlights the potentially disastrous consequences when robotic surgery goes awry. Anesthesiologist Luke Daulton is back after his harrowing brush with death at the hands of Dr. Katz two years ago in Fatal Complications. Now, after a series of unexplainable--and deadly--post-surgical complications, Luke finds himself entangled in a tumultuous love triangle between hospital co-workers; a triangle rife with sex, jealousy, anger, and revenge--where murder is just a matter of time.

A Treatise on Good Robots

A Treatise on Good Robots
Author: Krzysztof Tchon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2017-09-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351296426

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This volume investigates the ways emerging technologies in the fields of robotics and bio-robotics are influencing society. It necessarily considers both philosophical and technological study of robots, including what it means for robots to exist as good and moral entities, and how they benefit humans and enhance their quality of life. Contributors address artificial intelligence and social functions as well as technical matters. Chapters are wide-ranging, and consider robots in science fiction; the need for designers to create moral robots; specific technology; and the development of biological robots. Also addressed are robotic technologies already enhancing human bodies, such as exoskeletons that allow paraplegics to walk. The contributors foresee robots becoming involved not only in mundane domestic tasks such as washing dishes, but also in providing health care to the disabled and companionship to the elderly. This volume offers exciting philosophical reflections that unveil new connections between robotics and praxiology and their practical applications.

The Good Robot, the Bad Robot, and the Man Who Made Them

The Good Robot, the Bad Robot, and the Man Who Made Them
Author: Tim Cooks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2016-10-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781539536710

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Artificial intelligence is intelligence displayed by machines.What happens when you give them emotions to feel happiness and anger?Zonite is an artificial intelligence, made to bring joy to the world, but what happens when his creator, Professor John, makes a new AI, smarter and more human than him?How will Zonite cope, especially with evil lurking around?Will Zonite get over his feelings and welcome the new AI, or will he let anger take over instead?

The Wild Robot

The Wild Robot
Author: Peter Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781536435078

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Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.

A Robot in the Garden

A Robot in the Garden
Author: Deborah Install
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2016-05-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1492631272

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For fans of THE ROSIE PROJECT and THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHTTIME, a broken man and his damaged robot build an unlikely friendship—with some assembly required. Ben's really great at failing at things—his job, being a husband, taking the garbage out. But then he finds a battered robot named Tang in his garden. And Tang needs Ben. More ornery and prone to tantrums than one would expect from something made of gears and springs, Tang desperately must be fixed—and he just might be the thing to fix what's broken in Ben. Together they will discover that friendship can rise up under the strangest of circumstances, and what it really means to be human. Funny, touching, charming, wise, and a bit unusual, A Robot in the Garden is a gem of a first novel, perfect for anyone who has ever found it difficult to connection with the world. "Our hero is a FANTASTIC and UNFORGETTABLE creation, and so is this absolute marvel of a novel."—Neil Smith, author of Bang Crunch and Boo "An inventive and utterly charming tale...heartwarming."—Booklist, Starred Review