Join the AI Book Club for a discussion of our Winter Break reading selection; God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning by Meghan O’Gieblyn. The AI Book Club meets monthly on Sunday afternoons at Amherst College to explore nonfiction (and the occasional fiction) on AI. Discussions, led by AILA staff, students and guest…
December’s selection is “Seventy-Two Letters,” a novella by Ted Chiang, from the collection Stories of Your Life and Others. This story is set in an alternate history, Victorian-era England where people can animate automata called golems by speaking names into objects. It explores the intersection of religion, science, and alternative history, particularly the idea of creating artificial life…
November’s book is Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari. Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early…
This is the first meeting of the semester for the AI Book Club! We will discuss our summer reading selection, Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, as well as announce our book selection for the month of October. Join us monthly on Sunday afternoons at Amherst College to explore nonfiction (and the occasional fiction)…
Join the Artificial Intelligence Book Club monthly on Sunday afternoons at Amherst College to explore nonfiction (and the occasional fiction) on AI. Discussions, led by AILA students and guest faculty, and will also continue online. Borrow your copy from Jones or Frost Libraries and be part of the conversation. Email: aila@amherst.edu to join the mailing…