Product Description

From a leading expert in artificial intelligence, an eye-opening but superbly argued book about how increasing innovation in robotic technology is enabling legitimate romantic and sexual relationships between humans and robots. Synthesizing breaking news in the field of robotics with the cultural history, technological development, art, literature, and psychology of artificial intelligence, "Love and Sex with Robots" is popular science at its diverting - and eye-opening - best. From Pygmalion falling for his chiseled Galatea to Dr. Frankenstein marveling in both awe and terror at his "modern Prometheus" to the man-meets-machine fiction of Ray Bradbury and Michael Crichton, readers have been enthralled by the possibilities of interaction between technological creations and themselves. Shocking yet wildly informative, "Love and Sex with Robots" builds on that fascination to show how entities we once deemed benign and unresponsive may very well turn out to be objects of real, human desire.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #149668 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

About the Author
David Levy is an internationally recognized expert on artificial intelligence who made his name in the field of computer chess and online gaming. Levy has been interviewed extensively in the media about the field of robotics, including a New York Times in-depth profile on sex with robots in 2006, and in that same year he was the first person to present academic papers on the subject of intimate relationships with robotic partners at the Roboethics conference in Geneva. He is also the author of the industry primer Robots Unlimited (2005). Levy lives in London.