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SUMMARY:The AI Con: Emily M. Bender in Conversation with Shelley Fairweather-Vega
DESCRIPTION:Folio: 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.
URL:https://fairvega.com/event/the-ai-con-emily-m-bender-in-conversation-with-shelley-fairweather-vega/
LOCATION:Folio\, the Seattle Athenaeum\, Seattle\, WA
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