Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us
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Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us is a popular science book exploring the future of robotics and artificial intelligence and their impact on human society.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us Context triple: [Rodney Brooks, authorOf, Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us]
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The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth
The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth is a speculative nonfiction book that explores a future society dominated by brain-emulation-based robots and examines how this transformation would reshape economics, work, and human relationships.
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B.
The Emotion Machine
The Emotion Machine is a 2006 book by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky that explores how human thinking and emotions can be understood as computational processes of the mind.
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C.
The Age of Spiritual Machines
The Age of Spiritual Machines is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the evolution of artificial intelligence and its profound impact on human society and consciousness.
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D.
The Singularity Is Near
The Singularity Is Near is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the imminent rise of superintelligent machines and explores the profound technological, social, and philosophical implications of this transformation.
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E.
I, Robot
I, Robot is a seminal science fiction short story collection by Isaac Asimov that explores the ethical and logical implications of advanced robotics and the famous Three Laws of Robotics.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us Target entity description: Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us is a popular science book exploring the future of robotics and artificial intelligence and their impact on human society.
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A.
The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth
The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth is a speculative nonfiction book that explores a future society dominated by brain-emulation-based robots and examines how this transformation would reshape economics, work, and human relationships.
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B.
The Emotion Machine
The Emotion Machine is a 2006 book by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky that explores how human thinking and emotions can be understood as computational processes of the mind.
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C.
The Age of Spiritual Machines
The Age of Spiritual Machines is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the evolution of artificial intelligence and its profound impact on human society and consciousness.
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D.
The Singularity Is Near
The Singularity Is Near is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the imminent rise of superintelligent machines and explores the profound technological, social, and philosophical implications of this transformation.
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E.
I, Robot
I, Robot is a seminal science fiction short story collection by Isaac Asimov that explores the ethical and logical implications of advanced robotics and the famous Three Laws of Robotics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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| instanceOf |
book
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non-fiction book ⓘ popular science book ⓘ |
| author |
Rodney Brooks
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surface form:
Rodney A. Brooks
Rodney Brooks ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describes |
Brooks’s subsumption architecture ideas
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development of autonomous robots ⓘ |
| explores |
embodied intelligence in robots
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ethical implications of robotics ⓘ future applications of robotics ⓘ impact of robots on human society ⓘ relationship between humans and machines ⓘ |
| format |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ |
| genre |
popular science
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science ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780375420798 ⓘ |
| hasPerspectiveOf | roboticist ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
artificial life
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blurring boundary between humans and machines ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ technological change and society ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
artificial intelligence
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cognitive science ⓘ future of technology ⓘ human–robot interaction ⓘ robotics ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
accessible explanation of robotics research
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discussion of how robots may change human self-understanding ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| publisher | Pantheon Books ⓘ |
| setInContextOf | late 20th century robotics research ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
general audience
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readers interested in science and technology ⓘ |
| timePeriodDiscussed |
history of robotics in the late 20th century
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near future of robotics ⓘ |
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