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Saturday, April 17 • 18:00 - 18:50
AI in the Real and Imagined Future

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Our understanding of AI and how intelligence works has come a long way since HAL's fixation on the pod bay doors. Nowadays "AI" powers everything from what you see on social media to what happens when you make a phone call. Depictions of AI in media have and haven't changed to accommodate this reality. What does AI mean for us in our everyday lives? How have our AI characters and motifs changed or evolved in response to that understanding. We'll discuss all of this, and also take a look at where we're heading and how these trends will continue with time and further development of the technology.
Moderators
avatar for Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

Researcher, LIRNEASIA
Yudhanjaya Wijeratne is the Nebula Award-nominated author of Numbercaste, The Inhuman Race, and several other stories. He works as a researcher with the Data, Algorithms and Policy team at LIRNEasia, a think tank working across the Global South; he also cofounded Watchdog Sri Lanka... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Benjamin C. Kinney

Benjamin C. Kinney

Attendee, Escape Pod
Benjamin C. Kinney is a neuroscientist, SFF writer, and assistant editor (submissions editor) of the science fiction magazine Escape Pod. His short stories have appeared in many excellent magazines including Strange Horizons, Analog, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. You can read more... Read More →
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Brahidaliz Martinez

I wear multiple hats...
Brahidaliz - a 2019 graduate of American University's MFA in creative writing program - is the author of the forthcoming cross-genre chapbook, Coqui's Song (late 2023 from Mason Jar Press.) They're a reviewer for The Geekiary, Sage Cigarettes, and CatStone Books.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky is the author of the acclaimed ten-book Shadows of the Apt series, the Echoes of the Fall series, and other novels, novellas and short stories including Children of Time (which won the Arthur C. Clarke award in 2016), and its sequel, Children of Ruin (which won... Read More →
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PJ Manney

author, PJ Manney
PJ Manney is the author of the P.K. Dick Award-nominated (R)EVOLUTION, book 1 in a trilogy with (ID)ENTITY, and the upcoming (CON)SCIENCE, out April 27, 2021. She also writes non-fiction and consults about emerging technology, future humans, empathy-building through storytelling... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 18:00 - 18:50 UTC
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