The Future of Work Series at UC Davis presents "Artificial Intelligence or Sophisticated Mimicry: The Business and Ethics of Automated Systems"

Submitted by Jeff Shaw on Thu, 02/27/2020 - 1:22pm
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The Future of Work Series at UC Davis presents

"Artificial Intelligence or Sophisticated Mimicry: The Business and Ethics of Automated Systems"

Featuring speaker Mark Nitzberg, AI scientist, entrepreneur, and consultant to industry and government.  Currently the Executive Director of the Center for Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence at UC Berkeley, head of strategic outreach for the Berkeley AI Research Lab, and a principal at the Cambrian.ai think tank network.

In The Studio - Contributions of Muslim Athletes

Submitted by aleem shabazz on Tue, 02/18/2020 - 11:24am
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Aleem Shabazz, Co-founder of Crescent Sports Media, hosts Imam Raqeeb Abduljabbar, of the Sacramento Islamic Resource Center.

Sacramento Islamic Resource Center
4301 Marconi Avenue
on Facebook, or 916-342-5054

topics discussed include: how the resource center got started, what resources are available there, how you can contribute knowledge and skills, the roles Muslim athletes have found themselves in, athletes and politics and how changing economics in sports have affected their willingness to speak out on political matters.

Recorded 02/13/20.

Fast Forward - Joe Halderman

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Fri, 02/14/2020 - 5:24pm
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SFWA Grand Master author Joe Haldeman talks about his illustrious career as a science fiction writer! Mr. Haldeman talks about his experiences at various writing workshops, his work as a writing teacher, and the pros and cons of long-term writing contracts.

Also in this episode:

Steve Cordle reviews Fire Touched, a Mercy Thompson novel by Patricia Briggs.

Marianne Petrino gives a rating of 3 chans to Red Data Girl, an anime series distributed by Funimation.

Fast Forward - Jo Walton

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Fri, 02/14/2020 - 5:21pm
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In episode #290 of Fast Forward: Contemporary Science Fiction we interview award winning author Jo Walton. Ms. Walton talks about her latest series of books, the Thessaly trilogy, describing the special challenges of creating a world that has classical gods and magic, as well as sentient robots. She also talks about the opportunities the books gave her to explore issues of morality, equality and responsibility, using the story of the creation and development of a version of Plato's Republic.

The Connie Bryan Show - Feb'20

Submitted by Connie Bryan on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 11:27am
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Connie delves into the ongoing large scale use of ROUNDUP being sprayed in large quantity to kill aquatic plants in "The Delta", a water source for 25 million Californians...followed by Connie's oped on both the Repub Trump "cult" AND the "cult" within the Democratic Party, followed by Connie's performance of an iconic hit from the group "Chicago"