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Friday, July 15 • 7:00pm - 7:50pm
A.I. - Science Fiction and Fact (ET)

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When someone like Stephen Hawking calls Artificial Intelligence “the worst mistake mankind could make,” is this based on science fact or science fiction? When Microsoft has to pull it's first AI as it becomes racist and horrible, are there inherent safeguards, possible mandatory artificial safeguards, that need to be included? And fear aside, what could real artificial intelligence do for all intelligent life forms?
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JT "The Enginerd"

JT “The Enginerd” is an all-purpose geek.  She obtained her Masters of Science in Engineering Mechanics with a focus in biomechanics from Virginia Tech in 2013.  Her research focused on animal locomotion and included the analysis of beetle respiration and helping construct a... Read More →

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Jim Beall

Jim Beall (BS-Math, MBA, PE) has been a nuclear engineer for over 40 years, a war gamer for over 50, and an avid reader of science fiction for even longer. His experience in nuclear engineering and power systems began as a naval officer, shortly after surviving one of Admiral Rickover’s... Read More →
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Darin Kennedy

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Darin Kennedy, born and raised in Winston-Salem, NC, is a graduate of Wake Forest University and Bowman Gray School of Medicine. After completing family medicine residency in the mountains of Virginia, he served eight years as a United States Army physician and wrote his first novel... Read More →
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Stephen J. Simmons

Stephen J. Simmons started writing shortly after he retired from the Navy, primarily because his children had grown too old to listen to bedtime stories and the cats never laughed at the funny bits. After he sold over a dozen flash-fiction stories to various online publishing venues... Read More →

Friday July 15, 2016 7:00pm - 7:50pm EDT
Provincial A-B
  Science

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