All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace

What happens when machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence? We're finding out in real time -- in the coming years, this technological revolution will reshape not only our economic and political world, it will reshape all of us. But what happens after the dust settles?

This talk will summarize and synthesize ideas from Novacene, by James Lovelock (2019) and The Age of Spiritual Machines, by Ray Kurzweil (1999). Both of these books offer a prescient vision of the near future as well as predictions of where all of this is headed.

We'll talk about science fiction, consciousness, the human condition, and what life looks like when the machines become our caretakers.

Title taken from the poem of the same name by by Richard Brautigan.

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• AI/ML
• Wildcard