In Our Own Image: Building an Artificial Person

by Maureen Caudill

Book Overview

From Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator, to C-3PO of the Star Wars trilogy, to the comic robot-butler in Woody Allen's Sleeper, the "android" has long been a familiar figure on the American imaginative landscape. But how far removed from reality are such fictitious creations? Will there ever be an intelligent robot in our future? Neural networks expert Maureen Caudill says yes. In fact, she argues that the development of intelligent androids is a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019507338X
• ISBN13: 9780195073386
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"