Bringing together literary scholars, computer scientists, ethicists, philosophers of mind, and scholars from affiliated disciplines, this collection of essays offers important and timely insights into the pasts, presents, and, above all, possible futures of Artificial Intelligen…
Bringing together literary scholars, computer scientists, ethicists, philosophers of mind, and scholars from affiliated disciplines, this collection of essays offers important and timely insights into the pasts, presents, and, above all, possible futures of Artificial Intelligen…
This book brings together the work of sociologists and historians along with perspectives from media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and information studies to address the origins, practices, and possible futures of contemporary machine learning. From its found…
The cybernetic feedback loop of domestic realism -- The informatics of character -- Trollope, Turing, and the art of imitation -- Hardy, James, and theories of artificial mind -- Epilogue: How a machine thinks "Finds a new theory of Victorian realist character in the mid-twenti…
"Finds a new theory of Victorian realist character in the mid-twentieth-century emergence of artificial intelligence. Redefining Victorian fictional character through its similarity to machines, this book challenges prevailing assumptions about what makes a realist character rea…
"Finds a new theory of Victorian realist character in the mid-twentieth-century emergence of artificial intelligence. Redefining Victorian fictional character through its similarity to machines, this book challenges prevailing assumptions about what makes a realist character rea…
This book explores the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It examines the cultural ideas that go into the making of robots, and the role of fiction in co-constructing the technological practices of the robotic scientists. The book engage…
1. Revolutionary robots -- 2. Out of body minds -- 3. Social robots -- 4. The gender of the geek -- 5. The dissociated robot -- 6. Fantasy and robots. "This book explores the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It examines the cultural i…
This book explores the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It examines the cultural ideas that go into the making of robots, and the role of fiction in co-constructing the technological practices of the robotic scientists. The book engage…
This book explores the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It examines the cultural ideas that go into the making of robots, and the role of fiction in co-constructing the technological practices of the robotic scientists. The book engage…
"This book explores the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It examines the cultural ideas that go into the making of robots, and the role of fiction in co-constructing the technological practices of the robotic scientists. The book engag…
This book explores the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It examines the cultural ideas that go into the making of robots, and the role of fiction in co-constructing the technological practices of the robotic scientists. The book engage…
This project examines the representation of anxiety about technology that human subjects feel when encountering artificial intelligences in four science fiction novels. By exploring this anxiety, something profound can be revealed about what it means to be a person living in a t…
"This project examines the representation of anxiety about technology that human subjects feel when encountering artificial intelligences in four science fiction novels. By exploring this anxiety, something profound can be revealed about what it means to be a person living in a …