(And Why Re-learning How To Learn Is Harder Than Ever) I’ve been officially a student for the past six weeks. Yes, you read that right. I’ve been quietly counting the days, trying to blend this new hat into my current wardrobe – the one I’ve been wearing for, oops… almost 25 years. Why this matters… Read More Why Being a Student Has Become So Hard
In my earlier reflection on Klara and the Sun (a book by Kazuo Ishiguro), I focused on how the author uses the perspective of an Artificial Friend to explore “consciousness” and how we relate to “intelligent systems”. Returning to the novel, I find myself drawn to a different thread: how inequality is engineered not through… Read More A Second Look at Klara and the Sun: Inequality and Engineered Futures
In the very first lecture of the Artificial Intelligence for Business program, I learned that the word “robot”—a word we use almost every day—was first introduced by Karel Čapek in a 1920 play titled R.U.R., or Rossum’s Universal Robots. Coincidentally, it was a book I had bought this summer but hadn’t yet had the chance… Read More Karel Čapek: The Playwright Who Gave Us “Robots” and Warned Us About Ourselves
As I continue my own journey into the world of Artificial Intelligence, I often find comfort and inspiration in stories of people who saw the world differently. Recently, during my first lecture at Bologna Business School, I came across the name Ada Lovelace. Learning about this woman immediately caught my attention. Maybe it’s because I… Read More Ada Lovelace – a poetical scientist
During the AI and Neurotechnologies: Towards Neurorights? lecture last month, Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” came up in the discussion. I noted it down and ended up reading it as soon as I got home from the training. The book isn’t “about technology” in a technical way, but it creates a space to explore… Read More Reading “Klara and the Sun”: On consciousness & understanding