The Culture Vultures reading group invites everyone to a meeting moderated by dr Urszula Kizelbach devoted to artificial intelligence, inspired by a novel Machines Like Me by a contemporary British author Ian McEwan.
Charlie Friend is thirty-two. A former electronics whiz kid, he has squandered his youth on dilettantish studies in physics and anthropology, followed by a series of botched get-rich-quick schemes. Perhaps out of some desire for correction, Charlie sells his mother’s house to finance the purchase of Adam, one of twenty-five cutting-edge androids built to serve as an “intellectual sparring partner, friend and factotum.” In this “retrofuturist drama”, Alan Turing makes a few soliloquizing cameos as a commentary on the ethics of AI and human relationships (Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 2019)
When? Wednesday, January 27, 6:30 pm
Where? MS Teams
How? Use the code: g9h9jtl
