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Robotic Ambitions

Author : Lesley Conner

Publisher : Apex Publications

Page : 425 pages

File Size : 37,7 MB

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Whether striving to protect the family they’ve chosen, searching for meaning amid the chaos of the world, or questioning what it is that makes one alive, robotic ambition can mean many different things. Robotic Ambitions: Tales of Mechanical Sentience explores the nuance of sentience manufactured and evolved within mechanical beings. It peels back the metal exterior and takes a hard look at what is inside. Within these pages you will discover stories of robots defying their coding for a chance at love, resisting societal norms so that they may experience art and pleasure, and searching for their place in a world that was not made for them, but rather was made to use them. These are stories about striking out on your own, building something new amid destruction, and doing whatever it takes to make sure you survive. Robots and AI are more than tools for humanity. They have their own goals, dreams, and aspirations. This anthology includes stories by Lavie Tidhar, Premee Mohamed, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Jason Sanford, and many more.



Robotic Ambitions

Author : Lesley Conner

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Release : 2023-10-10

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Whether striving to protect the family they've chosen, searching for meaning amid the chaos of the world, or questioning what it is that makes one alive, robotic ambition can mean many different things. Robotic Ambitions: Tales of Mechanical Sentience explores the nuance of sentience manufactured and evolved within mechanical beings. It peels back the metal exterior and takes a hard look at what is inside. Within these pages you will discover stories of robots defying their coding for a chance at love, resisting societal norms so that they may experience art and pleasure, and searching for their place in a world that was not made for them, but rather was made to use them. These are stories about striking out on your own, building something new amid destruction, and doing whatever it takes to make sure you survive. Robots and AI are more than tools for humanity. They have their own goals, dreams, and aspirations. This anthology includes stories by Lavie Tidhar, Premee Mohamed, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Jason Sanford, and many more. Includes an introduction by Martha Wells. TABLE OF CONTENTS It-Who-Dreams-Under-Grey-Clouds in The-Town-Within-The-City by Marie Croke She Builds Quick Machines by Lyndsie Manusos Out There With Them by N.V. Haskell Prospecting by Lavie Tidhar The Caregivers by Marie Vibbert The Town Full of Broken Tin Men by Danny Cherry Jr. Ark by Liam Hogan A Still Life by Elliott Wink The City in the Forest by Premee Mohamed An Incomplete Record of Database Deletions, in Alphabetical Order by Mar Vincent Built to Cheat by Derrick Boden The Big Book of Grandmamas by Sheree Renee Thomas Everything else is advertising by J Wallace Alice & Lucy by Edward Daschle Fearfully and Wonderfully Made by Izzy Wasserstein A Lifeline of Silk by Renan Bernardo Little Fathers of Darkness by Jason Sanford Solor Sonata for Four Hands by Jennifer R. Donohue Tenets of Asendance by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Somto Ihezue Intersecting Datafields by Myna Change A Fragility, a Shadow by Leah Ning Insatiable Life by Kathleen Schaefer Ribbit by Mona West How to Get to Be a Three-Thousand-Year-Old Mining Ai by Nick Hartland An Android in the Desert by Rachel Gutin



Robotic Ambitions

Author : Jason Sizemore

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Page : 0 pages

File Size : 15,34 MB

Release : 2023-08-15

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ISBN : 9781955765138

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Osiris, Volume 38

Author : James Evans

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 419 pages

File Size : 46,7 MB

Release : 2023-07-18

Category : History

ISBN : 0226827887

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Perceptively explores the shifting intersections between algorithmic systems and human practices in the modern era. How have algorithmic systems and human practices developed in tandem since 1800? This volume of Osiris deftly addresses the question, dispelling along the way the traditional notion of algorithmic “code” and human “craft” as natural opposites. Instead, algorithms and humans have always acted in concert, depending on each other to advance new knowledge and produce social consequences. By shining light on alternative computational imaginaries, Beyond Craft and Code opens fresh space in which to understand algorithmic diversity, its governance, and even its conservation. The volume contains essays by experts in fields extending from early modern arithmetic to contemporary robotics. Traversing a range of cases and arguments that connect politics, historical epistemology, aesthetics, and artificial intelligence, the contributors collectively propose a novel vocabulary of concepts with which to think about how the history of science can contribute to understanding today’s world. Ultimately, Beyond Craft and Code reconfigures the historiography of science and technology to suggest a new way to approach the questions posed by an algorithmic culture—not only improving our understanding of algorithmic pasts and futures but also unlocking our ability to better govern our present.



Expanding Sphere / Iris Dome

Author : Canadian Centre for Architecture

Publisher : Canadian Centre for Architecture

Page : 61 pages

File Size : 26,25 MB

Release : 2014-03-20

Category : Architecture

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Carbolics

Author : James May

Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton

Page : 286 pages

File Size : 40,77 MB

Release : 2022-11-03

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 139971371X

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Why does a man with a Ferrari and a Porsche drive a Fiat Panda? Is going fast really necessary? Is it your fault if you get run over? Why will electric cars really save the planet (possibly)? In Carbolics the UK's favourite petrol head (after Clarkson and Hammond) James May answers these questions and more. Across 80 essays, James gives his quirky, entertaining take on cars, motorbikes, trucks - and explains why the bicycle might just be the best invention of all. Written with James's characteristic wit and humour, Carbolics is the perfect Christmas gift for petrolheads.



Apex Magazine Issue 145

Author : Lesley Conner

Publisher : Apex Publications

Page : 218 pages

File Size : 26,31 MB

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Category : Fiction

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Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful. APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards. We publish every other month. Issue 145 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews. EDITORIAL Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION Our Lady of the Clay by Daniela Tomova The Owl by Stephen M.A. A Lullaby of Anguish by Marie Croke Loss Prevention by Pamela Rentz FLASH FICTION What is Conjured Shall Vanish by Akis Linardos Intertwined by Anne Wilkins CLASSIC FICTION Growing Swirling Clouds by T.K. Rex Auxiliary, Supplementary, Inessential by Christi Nogle NONFICTION Build Your (Weird) Community by Christopher Mark Rose I Was a Twelve-Year-Old Black Boy Who Wanted to be a Bene Gesserit by Malon Edwards Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by AC Wise Book Review: It's Only a Game by Kelsea Yu by Leah Ning INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Stephen M.A. by Marissa van Uden Interview with Author Marie Croke by Marissa van Uden Interview with Cover Artist Silvia Moravčíková Bobeková by Bradley Powers



Apex Magazine Issue 138

Author : Lesley Conner

Publisher : Apex Publications

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 10,94 MB

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Category : Fiction

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Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful. APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards. We publish every other month. Issue 138 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews. EDITORIAL Editorial by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION The Relationship of Ink to Blood by Alex Langer Ncheta by Chisom Umeh Thank Mother for Your Life by Mary G. Thompson Chupa Sangre by Tre Harris Salas A World Unto Myself by P.A. Cornell Lady Koi-Koi: A Book Report by Suyi Davies Okungbowa FLASH FICTION Measure Twice, Cut Once by K.R. March Smoke Fire Wind Sea by Valerie Kemp CLASSIC FICTION A Mastery of German by Marian Denise Moore An Inventory of the Property of the Escaped Suspect, Confiscated at the Time of Her Arrest Following the Incident on Ash Street, with Annotations by Acting Sheriff Helena Fairwind by Tim Pratt NONFICTION Words Wielded by Women by Carina Bissett INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Alex Langer by Marissa van Uden Interview with Author Tre Harris Salas by Marissa van Uden Interview with Artist Robson Michel by Bradley Powers



The Caregiving Ambition

Author : Julia B. Bear

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 43,65 MB

Release : 2022

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0197512410

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"Whom would you call "ambitious" or, for that matter, a "big success"? Someone who starts her career in a good mid-level job and, over the years, works her way up to CEO and a seven-figure salary? An actor who keeps plugging away with bit parts in commercials and local theater but eventually becomes an A-list Hollywood star with a luxurious Hollywood lifestyle?"--



An Anthropology of Robots and AI

Author : Kathleen Richardson

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 149 pages

File Size : 46,94 MB

Release : 2015-02-11

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1317566955

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This book explores the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It examines the cultural ideas that go into the making of robots, and the role of fiction in co-constructing the technological practices of the robotic scientists. The book engages with debates in anthropological theorizing regarding the way that robots are reimagined as intelligent, autonomous and social and weaved into lived social realities. Richardson charts the move away from the “worker” robot of the 1920s to the “social” one of the 2000s, as robots are reimagined as companions, friends and therapeutic agents.