Hans Moravec

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Hans Peter Moravec (born November 30, 1948 in Kautzen , Austria ) is an Austro - Canadian scientist in the field of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , USA .

Life

Moravec has been a pioneer in robot development since the 1970s , with publications on artificial intelligence , transhumanism and futurology .

Moravec received his doctorate in 1980 at the Stanford University for Doctor of Philosophy by the development of a remote-controlled, with a television camera-equipped robot, which was controlled by a computer. He is the author of the Moravec paradox .

In 2003 he co-founded the SEEGRID Corporation , a robot company that has set itself the goal of developing autonomous robots.

Publications

His popular science books in German are:

  • Mind Children. The race between human and artificial intelligence. - Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2001 (English 1988) ISBN 3-455-08373-0 - Here the development from the robot to an intelligent species is predicted - also with reference to Isaac Asimov's ideas - based on Moore's law for 2030-2040.
  • Computers take over power , Hoffmann and Campe, 1999 (English 1998) ISBN 3-455-08575-X - On developments in robotics and their implications.

Moravec describes his technological vision in this book as follows:

“I see these machines as our descendants. At the moment you hardly believe it, because they are only as intelligent as insects. But in time we will see the great potential that lies in them. And we will love our new robot children because they will be more pleasant than humans. You don't have to build into these machines all the negative human characteristics that have existed since the Stone Age. Back then, these properties were important to humans. He needed aggression, for example, to survive. Today, in our great civilized societies, these instincts no longer make sense. These things can simply be left out - just like the trait of people that they want to secure their lives at the expense of others. A robot doesn't have any of that. He is a pure creature of our culture and his success depends on how that culture develops. So he'll fit in a lot better than many people do. So we will like them and we will identify with them. We will accept them as children - as children who are not shaped by our genes, but who we have built with our hands and our minds. "

Trivia

In Dan Simmons science fiction novels Illium and Olymposare called autonomous mechanical-biological beings of Moravec , he himself is also mentioned in the novel as the origin of the name.

See also

Web links

Wikiquote: Hans Moravec  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From: Computers take power: From the triumphant advance of artificial intelligence . Hamburg 1999, p. 136. - is discussed by Dirk Evers, Tübingen, in Man as a Turing Machine ? - The question of artificial intelligence from a philosophical and theological perspective online (PDF; 71 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Moravec, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moravec, Hans Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian robotics scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Kautzen , Austria