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Machines of Loving Grace : the Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots by John Markoff; Overdrive Inc is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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As robots are increasingly integrated into modern society—on the battlefield and the road, in business, education, and health—Pulitzer-Prize-winning __New York Times__ science writer John Markoff searches for an answer to one of the most important questions of our age: will these machines help us, or will they replace us? In the past decade alone, Google introduced us to driverless cars, Apple debuted a personal assistant that we keep in our pockets, and an Internet of Things connected the smaller tasks of everyday life to the farthest reaches of the internet. There is little doubt that robots are now an integral part of society, and cheap sensors and powerful computers will ensure that, in the coming years, these robots will soon act on their own. This new era offers the promise of immense computing power, but it also reframes a question first raised more than half a century ago, at the birth of the intelligent machine: Will we control these systems, or will they control us? In __Machines of Loving Grace, New York Times__ reporter John Markoff, the first reporter to cover the World Wide Web, offers a sweeping history of the complicated and evolving relationship between humans and

Who reads Machines of Loving Grace : the Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots?

Author

John Markoff; Overdrive Inc

Publisher

ECCO, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9785916714487

Category

science

Subjects

Engineering, Fiction, Science

Rating

3.66 / 5 (283 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14