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by John Markoff


  7.Ibid.

  8.Gill A. Pratt, “Robot to the Rescue,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, December 3, 2013, http://thebulletin.org/robot-rescue.

  9.“2013 DARPA Robotic Challenge Trials Overview,” Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, http://archive.darpa.mil/roboticschallengetrialsarchive.

  10.Singularity Hub, “Industrial Perception Robot Arm Box Toss,” YouTube, April 17, 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXxU4sL6hq0.

  11.“Guidelines for Scientific Research,” Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, March 2011, http://www.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/edu/others/pdf/guideline_en.pdf.

  12.Charlie Rose, “Amazon Unveils Futuristic Plan: Delivery by Drone,” 60 Minutes Overtime, December 1, 2013, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-unveils-futuristic-plan-delivery-by-drone.

  13.DARPAtv, “Darpa’s Pet-Proto Robot Navigates Obstacles,” Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, October 24, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFGfq0pRczY.

  14.Hans Moravec, Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988), 15.

  15.Eric Berger and Keenan Wyrobek, “PR1 Robot Cleans a Room,” Salisbury Robotics Lab, Stanford University, 2007, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ4XtyMoxIA.

  16.“The Hopkins Beast,” Field Robotics Center, 1960, http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/talks/revo.slides/1960.html.

  8|“ONE LAST THING”

  1.John Markoff, “A Free and Simple Computer Link,” New York Times, December 8, 1993, http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/08/business/business-technology-a-free-and-simple-computer-link.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm.

  2.Danielle Newnham, Mad Men of Mobile: Leading Entrepreneurs and Innovators Share Their Stories, from SIRI to SHAZAM, Kindle ed. (Seattle: CreateSpace, 2013), Kindle location 129.

  3.Ibid., Kindle location 137–139.

  4.John Sculley and John A. Byrne, Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple: A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future (New York: HarperCollins, 1987).

  5.David Greelish, “An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay,” Time, April 2, 2013, http://techland.time.com/2013/04/02/an-interview-with-computing-pioneer-alan-kay.

  6.Gordon E. Moore, “Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits,” Electronics 38, no. 8 (1965), 114–117.

  7.Paul Pangaro, “‘Getting Started’ Guide to Cybernetics,” Pangaro.com, http://www.pangaro.com/definition-cybernetics.html.

  8.J. J. O’Connor and E. F. Robertson, “Andrew Gordon Speedie Pask,” School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, http://turnbull.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Pask.html.

  9|MASTERS, SLAVES, OR PARTNERS?

  1.Claire Cain Miller, “Technology, Aided by Recession, Is Polarizing the Work World,” New York Times, July 22, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/23/upshot/how-technology-aided-by-recession-is-transforming-the-work-world.html?rref=upshot.

  2.Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Occupational Employment Projections to 2022,” December 2013, http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/occupational-employment-projections-to-2022.htm.

  3.Zeynep Tufekci, “Failing the Third Machine Age: When Robots Come for Grandma,” Medium, July 22, 2014, https://medium.com/message/failing-the-third-machine-age-1883e647ba74.

  4.Louise Aronson, “The Future of Robot Caregivers,” New York Times, July 19, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/opinion/sunday/the-future-of-robot-caregivers.html.

  5.Ken Goldberg, “Robots with Their Heads in the Clouds,” Aspen Ideas Festival 2014, Medium, August 25, 2014, https://medium.com/aspen-ideas/robots-with-their-heads-in-the-clouds-e88ac44def8a.

  6.“Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics + the Zeroth Law,” March 1942, Jeremy Norman’s HistoryofInformation.com, http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=4108.

  7.Defense Science Board, “The Role of Autonomy in DoD Systems,” U.S. Department of Defense, July 2012, http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/AutonomyReport.pdf.

  8.John Markoff, “Already Anticipating ‘Terminator’ Ethics,” New York Times, November 24, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/science/already-anticipating-terminator-ethics.html.

  9.Bill Joy, “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us,” Wired, April 2000, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html.

  10.Eric Horvitz and Bart Selman, “Interim Report from the Panel Chairs,” AAAI Presidential Panel on Long-Term AI Futures, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, August 2009, http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/horvitz/note_from_AAAI_panel_chairs.pdf.

  11.Mark Prigg, “Google Sets Up Artificial Intelligence Ethics Board to Curb the Rise of the Robots,” Daily Mail, January 29, 2014, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2548355/Google-sets-artificial-intelligence-ethics-board-curb-rise-robots.html.

  12.Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott (1982; Burbank, CA: Warner Bros.).

  13.Leon Neyfakh, “Do Our Brains Pay a Price for GPS?” Boston Globe, August 18, 2013, http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/08/17/our-brains-pay-price-for-gps/d2Tnvo4hiWjuybid5UhQVO/story.html.

  INDEX

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  Abbeel, Pieter, 268

  Abelson, Robert, 180–181

  Abovitz, Rony, 271–275

  Active Ontologies, 304

  Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution, 73–74

  agent-based interfaces, 195–226. see also Siri (Apple)

  avatars, 304, 305

  Baxter (robot), 195–196, 204–205, 205, 207

  Brooks and, 201–204

  CALO, 31, 297, 302–304, 310, 311

  chatbots, 221–225, 304

  early personal computing and, 196–201

  ethics of, 339–342

  “golemics” and, 208–215

  Google and, 12–13, 341

  Microsoft and, 187–191, 215–220

  Rethink Robotics and, 204–208

  singularity and, 220–221

  Agents, Inc., 191–192

  aging, of humans, 93–94, 236–237, 245, 327–332

  “Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence” (Dreyfus), 177

  Allen, Paul, 267, 268, 337

  Alone Together (Turkle), 173, 221–222

  Amazon, 97–98, 206, 247

  Ambler (robot), 33, 202

  Anderson, Chris, 88

  Andreessen, Marc, 69

  Apocalypse AI (Geraci), 85, 116–117

  Apple. see also Siri (Apple)

  early history of, 7, 8, 214, 279–281, 307

  iPhone, 23, 93, 239, 275, 281

  iPod, 194, 275, 281

  Jobs and, 13, 35, 112, 131, 194, 214, 241, 281–282, 320–323

  Knowledge Navigator, 188, 300, 304, 305–310, 317, 318

  labor force of, 83–84

  Rubin and, 240

  Sculley and, 35, 280, 300, 305, 306, 307, 317

  Architecture Machine, The (Negroponte), 191

  Architecture Machine Group, 306–307, 308–309

  Arkin, Ronald, 333–335

  Armer, Paul, 74

  Aronson, Louise, 328

  Artificial General Intelligence, 26

  artificial intelligence (AI). see artificial intelligence (AI) history; autonomous vehicles; intelligence augmentation (IA) versus AI; labor force; robotics advancement; Siri (Apple)

  artificial intelligence (AI) history, 95–158. see also intelligence augmentation (IA) versus AI

  AI commercialization, 156–158

  AI terminology, xii, 105–109

  AI Winter, 16, 130–131, 140

  Breiner and, 125–135

  deep learning neural networks, 150–156, 151

  early neural networks, 141–150

  expert systems, 134–141, 285

  McCarthy and, 109–115

  Moravec and,
115–125

  Silicon Valley inception, 95–99, 100, 256

  SRI inception, 99–105

  Strong artificial intelligence, 12, 26, 272

  “Artificial Intelligence” (Lighthill), 130

  “Artificial Intelligence of Hubert L. Dreyfus, The” (Papert), 178

  Asimov, Isaac, 101, 123, 131, 333

  Association for Computing Machinery, 86, 192–194

  Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 336–337

  Atkinson, Bill, 307

  Atlas (Boston Dynamics), 229–230, 238, 247–249, 249, 252, 254

  “A.T.R. Project” (Shockley), 96

  Audi, 45–46, 50, 52, 57

  augmented reality, 272–275

  Automata Studies (McCarthy, Shannon), 107

  automated teller machines (ATMs), 81–82

  Automation (Diebold), 98

  Automation (MacMillan), 209

  Autonomous Robotic Manipulation, 235–236

  autonomous vehicles, 19–63

  commercial applications, 45–46, 60, 61

  DARPA and, 24, 26, 27–36, 40

  delivery vehicles, 82

  electric, 58–59

  ethical issues of, 26–27, 60–61

  Google and, 35–45, 51–52, 54–59, 62–63

  Gordon on, 88–89

  handoff problem, 57, 164

  labor force issues of, 25, 61–62

  legal issues of, 46, 60

  Mobileye and, 46–54

  safety of, 45, 49, 59–61, 62, 88–89

  Stanford Cart, 120–122, 200–201

  Stanley project, 19–23, 35–36, 36

  technology transitions and, 23–27

  “trolley problem,” 60, 76

  Autor, David, 10, 78, 80

  avatars, 304, 305

  Aviram, Ziv, 48

  Bagon, Eyal, 50, 51

  Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, 203

  Ballmer, Steve, 330

  banking industry technology, 81–82, 188

  Barlow, John Perry, 173

  Baxter (robot), 99, 195–196, 204–205, 205, 207

  Beam (Suitable Technologies), 243

  “beastie,” 231

  “Beast” (mobile robot), 268

  Beaudry, Paul, 80

  Bechtolsheim, Andy, 134

  Beckman, Arnold O., 98

  Beckman Instruments, 98

  Being Digital (Negroponte), 191

  Bell, Eric Temple, 105

  Bell Labs, 107, 133, 149–150

  Belove, Ed, 140

  Bengio, Yoshua, 150

  Berg, Paul, 335–336

  Berger, Eric, 258

  Berkeley, Edmund C., 231

  Berners-Lee, Tim, 289

  Bezos, Jeff, 206, 247

  BigDog (Boston Dynamics), 228–229

  BMW, 45

  Bobrow, Danny, 178, 182

  Boltzmann, Ludwig, 146

  Boltzmann Machine, 146–158

  Bosack, Leonard, 134

  Boss (autonomous car), 32–35

  Boston Computer Museum, 14

  Boston Dynamics, 228–230, 232, 238, 247, 248, 249, 249–253

  Bradski, Gary, 260–265, 261

  BRAIN initiative, 24

  Brand, Stewart, 90, 255–256

  Brautigan, Richard, xvii

  Breazeal, Cynthia, 204

  Breiner, Sheldon, 125–135

  Brin, Sergey, 39, 41, 55, 184–187

  Brock, David, 95, 98

  Brooks, Rodney, 85, 98–99, 112, 186, 195–208, 205, 236

  Brown, Gordon, 98

  browsers, advent of, 301, 312

  Brynjolfsson, Erik, 79, 82–83, 86–87

  Buchanan, Bruce, 113

  Bush, Vannevar, 6, 62

  CaddyTrek (golf cart), xi

  CALO (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes), 31, 297, 302–304, 310, 311

  Caltech, 105–106, 231, 232

  Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, 150

  Capper, Liesl, 221–225

  Carlson, Curt, 304

  Carnegie Institute, 108

  Carnegie Mellon University, 32–35, 115, 145, 202

  chatbot technology, 221–225, 304

  Cheyer, Adam, 297–305, 310–323

  Chomsky, Noam, 156, 171

  Christensen, Clayton, 87

  Cisco Systems, 134

  Clarke, Arthur C., 131–132

  Cognea (My Cybertwin), 221–225, 237

  Cognitens, 48

  Cohen, Paul, 284, 287

  Colby, Kenneth, 113

  Comcast, 84

  Community Memory, 210

  “Computer as a Communication Device, The” (Licklider, Taylor), 164

  Computer Power and Human Reason (Weizenbaum), 174

  Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, 183–184

  Computers and Human Interaction Conference (1997), 192–194

  “Consequences of Human Intelligence, The” (Vardi), 86

  Control Data, 170

  control theory, 161–162, 216

  Conway, Lynn, 231

  cybernation revolution, 73–74

  Cybernetics (Wiener), 8, 97

  cyborg, 12, 160–161

  Danger, Inc., 240–241

  DARPA

  Advanced Research Projects Agency as precursor to, 30, 110, 111–112, 164, 171

  ARPAnet, 164, 196

  autonomous cars and Grand Challenge, 24, 26, 27–36, 40

  CALO and, 31, 297, 302–304, 310, 311

  Dugan and, 236

  Engelbart and, 6

  Licklider and, 11

  LRASM, 26–27

  Moravec and, 119

  Pratt and, 235–236

  Robotics Challenge, 227–230, 234, 236–238, 244–254, 249, 333–334

  Rosen and, 102

  Taylor and, 160

  Darrach, Brad, 103–105

  Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, 105, 107–109, 114, 143

  DataLand, 307

  Davis, Ruth, 102–103

  “Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, A” (Barlow), 173

  DeepMind Technologies, 91, 337–338

  Defense Science Board, 27

  de Forest, Lee, 98

  “demons,” 190

  Dendral, 113–114, 127

  Diebold, John, 98

  Diffie, Whitfield, 8, 112

  Digital Equipment Corporation, 112, 285

  direct manipulation, 187

  Djerassi, Carl, 113

  Doerr, John, 7

  Dompier, Steve, 211–212

  Dreyfus, Hubert, 177–178, 179

  drone delivery research, 247–248

  Dubinsky, Donna, 154

  Duda, Richard, 128, 129

  Dugan, Regina, 236

  Duvall, Bill, 1–7

  Earnest, Les, 120, 199

  Earth Institute, 59

  Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier (EG&G), 127

  e-discovery software, 78

  E-Groups, 259

  elastic actuation, 236–237

  electronic commerce, advent of, 289, 301–302

  electronic stability control (ESC), 46

  Elementary Perceiver and Memorizer (EPAM), 283

  “Elephants Don’t Play Chess” (Brooks), 201

  Eliza, 14, 113, 172–174, 221

  email, advent of, 290, 310

  End of Work, The (Rifkin), 76–77

  Engelbart, Doug. see also SRI International

  on exponential power of computers, 118–119

  IA versus AI debate and, 165–167

  on intelligence augmentation (IA), xii, 5–7, 31

  Minsky and, 17

  “Mother of All Demos” (1968) by, 62

  NLS, 5–7, 172, 197

  Rosen and, 102

  Siri and, 301, 316–317

  Engineers and the Price System, The (Veblen), 343

  Enterprise Integration Technologies, 289, 291

  ethical issues, 324–344. see also intelligen
ce augmentation (IA) versus AI; labor force

  of autonomous cars, 26–27, 60–61

  decision making and control, 341–342

  Google on, 91

  human-in-the-loop debates, 158–165, 167–169, 335

  of labor force, 68–73, 325–332

  scientists’ responsibility and, 332–341, 342–344

  “techno-religious” issues, 116–117

  expert systems, defined, 134–141, 285

  Facebook, 83, 156–158, 266–267

  Fast-SLAM, 37

  Feigenbaum, Ed, 113, 133–136, 167–169, 283, 287–288

  Felsenstein, Lee, 208–215

  Fernstedt, Anders, 71

  “field robotics,” 233–234

  Fishman, Charles, 81

  Flextronics, 68

  Flores, Fernando, 179–180, 188

  Foot, Philippa, 60

  Ford, Martin, 79

  Ford Motor Company, 70

  Forstall, Scott, 322

  Foxconn, 93, 208, 248

  Friedland, Peter, 292

  Galaxy Zoo, 219–220

  Gates, Bill, 305, 329–330

  General Electric (GE), 68–69

  General Magic, 240, 315

  General Motors (GM), 32–35, 48–50, 52, 53, 60

  Genetic Finance, 304

  Genghis (robot), 202

  Geometrics, 127

  George, Dileep, 154

  Geraci, Robert, 85, 116–117

  Gerald (digital light field), 271

  Giant Brains, or Machines That Think (Berkeley), 231

  Gibson, William, 23–24

  Go Corp., 141

  God & Golem, Inc. (Wiener), 75, 211

  GOFAI (Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence), 108–109, 186

  “Golemic Approach, The” (Felsenstein), 212–213

  “golemics,” 75, 208–215

  Google

  Android, 43, 239, 248, 320

  autonomous cars and, 35–45, 51–52, 54–59, 62–63

  Chauffeur, 43

  DeepMind Technologies and, 91, 337–338

  Google Glass, 23, 38

  Google Now, 12–13, 341

  Google X Laboratory, 152–153

  Human Brain Project, 153–154

  influence of early AI history on, 99

  Kurzweil and, 85

  PageRank algorithm, 62, 92, 259

  robotic advancement by, 241–244, 248–255, 256, 260–261

  70-20-10 rule of, 39

  Siri’s development and, 314–315

  Street View cars, 39, 42–43, 54

  X Lab, 38, 55–56

  Gordon, Robert J., 87–89

  Gou, Terry, 93, 248

  Gowen, Rhia, 277–279

  Granakis, Alfred, 70

  Grand Challenge (DARPA), 24, 26, 27–36, 40

 

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