The Rochester Science Cafe is pleased to announce the first part of our Spring 2020 cafe lineup. Our first cafe will be this coming Tuesday, January 28, at 7pm. As always, we'll be at the Pittsford Plaza Barnes and Noble (3349 Monroe Ave.) upstairs in the community room. The talk will be:
Tuesday, January 28, 7pm
Artificial Intelligence: Assistant or Adversary?Dr. George Ferguson
Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, UofR
We will discuss the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence to help us understand what exactly AI is, and whether we should be concerned or elated.
Our February and March Cafes will be:
February 25: Dr. Michael Lam (RIT) -- "Pulsars: Fundamental Physics with Nature's Best Celestial Clocks"
March 24: Dr. Seth Hubbard (RIT) -- Solar power (title TBD).
More on April and May to come!
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On another note, if you enjoyed our November Cafe on Perception by Edmund Lalor, here are some links that he sent along for further reading:
I had a couple of folks ask me for links to further reading etc. So, if you have a mailing list, here are some suggestions:
https://www.ted.com/talks/anil_seth_your_brain_ hallucinates_your_conscious_ reality
https://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_ reality_as_it_is?language=en
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/02/the-mind- expanding-ideas-of-andy-clark
And for the more committed folks:
https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/Whatever%20next.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Surfing-Uncertainty- Prediction-Action-Embodied/dp/ 0190217014
https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Reality-Evolution- Truth/dp/0393254690
https://www.amazon.com/Predictive-Mind-Jakob-Hohwy/ dp/0199686734
