I’m really looking forward to our classes next week on AI Imaginaries and AI Technologies. It’s going to be interesting to see the gap between the “sci-fi” version of AI and how the tech actually works in the real world.
The Monday session on AI fiction is definitely the highlight for me. I love how movies and books shape our ideas about the future—sometimes making us more scared or excited than we probably should be. I’m curious to see if the “fictional” problems it shows are anything like the real technical challenges we’ll talk about on Wednesday.
I want to use this semester to figure out if our worries about AI come from the actual technology or if we’ve just watched too many movies! It’ll be fun to see where the line between imagination and reality really sits.