Happenings

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Happenings

Erewhon Lit Salon ft. Annalee Newitz & Charlie Jane Anders May 28, 2019 at 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm Manhattan

LOOSE ENDS: STRING THEORY AND THE QUEST FOR THE ULTIMATE THEORY May 30, 2019 at 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Artsn566 Laguardia Pl, New York, NY 10012, United States Thirty-five years ago string theory took physics by storm, promising the coveted unified theory of nature’s forces that Einstein valiantly sought but never found. In the intervening decades, string theory has brought a collection of mind-boggling possibilities into the lexicon of mainstream thinking—extra dimensions of space, holographic worlds, and multiple universes. Some researchers view these…

MAKING ROOM FOR MACHINES: GETTING READY FOR AGI May 31, 2019 at 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Gerald W Lynch Theatern524 W 59th St, New York, NY 10019, United States Join this year’s Turing Prize winner Yann LeCun and other pioneers in artificial intelligence for a no-nonsense discussion of whether a truly intelligent machine can be created—and, if so, how and when. The “thinking machines” that Alan Turing postulated in 1950 have already vaulted beyond us in specific arenas like chess, Go, and Jeopardy. But…

OUTSOURCING HUMANITY: DO ALGORITHMS MAKE BETTER DECISIONS THAN PEOPLE? June 1, 2019 at 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm NYU Global Spiritual Lifen238 Thompson St, New York, NY 10012, United States While artificial intelligence lacks empathy, reason, and even basic common sense, we already rely on it to make major decisions that affect human lives. Who gets hired? Who gets fired? Who goes to college? Who goes to jail? Whose life is saved by an organ transplant? Whose life is ended in a military strike? Machine…

Erewhon Literary Salon featuring Jess Zimmerman and Veronica Schanoes June 13, 2019 at 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm Manhattan JESS ZIMMERMAN is the editor-in-chief of Electric Literature and a freelance writer of essays, fiction, and prose poetry. She was the founding editor of Archipelago and a contributing editor for The Establishment. Jess is the coauthor of Basic Witches (Quirk, 2017) and her next book, an essay collection about female monsters, is forthcoming from Beacon.…

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