In our own image: building an artificial person

Abstract

From the Publisher: 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. fact, she argues that the development of intelligent androids is a mere twenty years away. In Our Own Image reveals just how far we've come in developing an intelligent robot, describes what technical obstacles must still be cleared, and outlines the potentially massive social disruptions and tangled moral and legal dilemmas these human machines will cause.