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Thinking Machines: The First AI Takeover Story
Karel Čapek’s “Rossum’s Universal Robots” (1920)
Jamie Hakim, "Digital Intimacies: Queer Men and Smartphones in Times of Crisis" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
An interview with Jamie Hakim and James Cummings
When We Prioritize Data and Metrics, What Happens to Human Connections?
A Discussion with Allison Pugh
Greg Epstein, "Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation" (MIT Press, 2024)
An interview with Greg Epstein
Ian Milligan, "Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
An interview with Ian Milligan
Bob Frishman, "Edward Duffield: Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803" (APS Press, 2024)
An interview with Bob Frishman
Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
Its the UConn Popcast, and this is the first episode in our new series about artificial intelligence and popular culture. In this first episode, we revisit Alan Turing's seminal1950 paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, in which he asks "Can machin
Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
Its the UConn Popcast, and this is the first episode in our new series about artificial intelligence and popular culture. In this first episode, we revisit Alan Turing's seminal1950 paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, in which he asks "Can machin
Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
An interview with Meryl Alper