圖書標籤: 社會學 機器人 神話傳說 古希臘 AI 科技 科學史
发表于2024-10-31
Gods and Robots pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life--and even invented real automated machines
The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by Hephaestus, the Greek god of invention. More than 2,500 years ago, long before medieval automata, and centuries before technology made self-moving devices possible, Greek mythology was exploring ideas about creating artificial life--and grappling with still-unresolved ethical concerns about biotechne, "life through craft." In this compelling, richly illustrated book, Adrienne Mayor tells the fascinating story of how ancient Greek, Roman, Indian, and Chinese myths envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices, and human enhancements--and how these visions relate to and reflect the ancient invention of real animated machines.
As early as Homer, Greeks were imagining robotic servants, animated statues, and even ancient versions of Artificial Intelligence, while in Indian legend, Buddha's precious relics were defended by robot warriors copied from Greco-Roman designs for real automata. Mythic automata appear in tales about Jason and the Argonauts, Medea, Daedalus, Prometheus, and Pandora, and many of these machines are described as being built with the same materials and methods that human artisans used to make tools and statues. And, indeed, many sophisticated animated devices were actually built in antiquity, reaching a climax with the creation of a host of automata in the ancient city of learning, Alexandria, the original Silicon Valley.
A groundbreaking account of the earliest expressions of the timeless impulse to create artificial life, Gods and Robots reveals how some of today's most advanced innovations in robotics and AI were foreshadowed in ancient myth--and how science has always been driven by imagination. This is mythology for the age of AI.
Adrienne Mayor is the author, most recently, of The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World and The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy, which was a finalist for the National Book Award (both Princeton). She is a research scholar in classics and the history of science at Stanford University and lives in Palo Alto, California.
Mayor阿姨如數傢珍地跟你講古希臘文獻和藝術裏那些被諸神和人類工匠製造齣來的生命和自動器械,偶爾還穿插一下遠至中國的記錄。前八章是神話傳說裏的造物,它們在古希臘世界引起的思考和在當今世界的迴響,盡管其中一些耳熟能詳,但從biothecne的角度來看又是一番新的驚奇。最後一章側重6世紀BC到AD10世紀的曆史記載,有暴君們的詭異刑具也有美妙如阿濛霍特普三世的唱歌石像。想藉個tardis看一眼品達筆下的機械之國羅德島和托勒密二世的酒神遊行!
評分這本書的觀點有三個:① 如今的機器人科幻故事情節可以追溯到古希臘羅馬、印度、波斯以及中國的神話;②機器人神話與曆史事實的關係並不是黑白分明的,既可能是先有曆史事實而後有神話,也有可能是相反的情況;③未來的人可能像機器人一樣強大,機器人也可能像人類一樣應對世界的變化。至於作者用到的材料,大概可以分為四種:①神話文字材料;②考古發現的各類雕塑、寶石、鏡子及容器;③曆史記載裏的各類發明;④現代科幻電影、神話學著作、科學術語。第一種材料都挺常見。誰有耐心查theoi,把其中對應詞條的材料讀完,最後瞭解的比作者多得多。至於剩下的那些材料,那就值得讀者羨慕瞭,既多,關聯程度還高,而且有趣,真叫引人入勝。
評分這本書的觀點有三個:① 如今的機器人科幻故事情節可以追溯到古希臘羅馬、印度、波斯以及中國的神話;②機器人神話與曆史事實的關係並不是黑白分明的,既可能是先有曆史事實而後有神話,也有可能是相反的情況;③未來的人可能像機器人一樣強大,機器人也可能像人類一樣應對世界的變化。至於作者用到的材料,大概可以分為四種:①神話文字材料;②考古發現的各類雕塑、寶石、鏡子及容器;③曆史記載裏的各類發明;④現代科幻電影、神話學著作、科學術語。第一種材料都挺常見。誰有耐心查theoi,把其中對應詞條的材料讀完,最後瞭解的比作者多得多。至於剩下的那些材料,那就值得讀者羨慕瞭,既多,關聯程度還高,而且有趣,真叫引人入勝。
評分這本書的觀點有三個:① 如今的機器人科幻故事情節可以追溯到古希臘羅馬、印度、波斯以及中國的神話;②機器人神話與曆史事實的關係並不是黑白分明的,既可能是先有曆史事實而後有神話,也有可能是相反的情況;③未來的人可能像機器人一樣強大,機器人也可能像人類一樣應對世界的變化。至於作者用到的材料,大概可以分為四種:①神話文字材料;②考古發現的各類雕塑、寶石、鏡子及容器;③曆史記載裏的各類發明;④現代科幻電影、神話學著作、科學術語。第一種材料都挺常見。誰有耐心查theoi,把其中對應詞條的材料讀完,最後瞭解的比作者多得多。至於剩下的那些材料,那就值得讀者羨慕瞭,既多,關聯程度還高,而且有趣,真叫引人入勝。
評分這本書的觀點有三個:① 如今的機器人科幻故事情節可以追溯到古希臘羅馬、印度、波斯以及中國的神話;②機器人神話與曆史事實的關係並不是黑白分明的,既可能是先有曆史事實而後有神話,也有可能是相反的情況;③未來的人可能像機器人一樣強大,機器人也可能像人類一樣應對世界的變化。至於作者用到的材料,大概可以分為四種:①神話文字材料;②考古發現的各類雕塑、寶石、鏡子及容器;③曆史記載裏的各類發明;④現代科幻電影、神話學著作、科學術語。第一種材料都挺常見。誰有耐心查theoi,把其中對應詞條的材料讀完,最後瞭解的比作者多得多。至於剩下的那些材料,那就值得讀者羨慕瞭,既多,關聯程度還高,而且有趣,真叫引人入勝。
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Gods and Robots pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024