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SUMMARY:Folio Presents: The AI Con: Emily M. Bender in Conversation with Shelley Fairweather-Vega
DESCRIPTION:By Donation – RSVP Required\nBooks sold at the event by Elliott Bay Book Company.\nFolio: The Seattle Athenaeum is delighted to welcome two Seattle authors at the intersection of language and technology for a timely conversation on the hype and realities of Artificial Intelligence. \nDr. Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington and co-author of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want, a practical guide to seeing through AI hype, questioning who benefits from it, and imagining a better path forward. Shelley Fairweather-Vega is the English-language translator of Hamid Ismailov’s We Computers, a novel in which a French poet builds a computer program capable of analyzing and generating literature, a story that uncannily anticipates our current moment.\nTogether, they explore the difference between pattern recognition and meaning, “ghosts” in the machine, and what literature, including a novel written decades ago, can teach us about the seduction of alleged artificial intelligence.\nPurchase Tickets\n
URL:https://www.pikeplacemarket.org/events-calendar/folio-presents-the-ai-con-emily-m-bender-in-conversation-with-shelley-fairweather-vega/
ORGANIZER;CN=Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum:MAILTO:Caroline@FolioSeattle.org
CATEGORIES:In-Person Event,Literary Event
LOCATION:93 Pike St. #307
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