The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth
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1st. ed.
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9780198754626
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448p.
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Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like?
Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or EMs. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably human.
Train an EM to do some job and copy it a million times: an army of workers is at your disposal. When they can be made cheaply, within perhaps a century, EMs will displace humans in most ...