Envisioning artificial intelligence

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Abstract

S cience shared to by The pervasivename naming wordand gift newtoday “robot,” them, to science things humanity:that making for itfiction andexample, mightideas the them offerbewordsisand, real. easy soa to forget that it was invented by the Czech playwright Karel Čapek, who coined the term in his 1920 play R.U.R.: Rossum’s Universal Robots. Within 2 years of its first performance in Prague, R.U.R. had been translated into 30 languages, and the word “robot,” which was preserved across various translations, quickly became ubiquitous.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)156
Number of pages1
JournalScience
Volume383
Issue number6679
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2024
Externally publishedYes

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