Your Pretty Much Pop hosts Mark Linsenmayer, Lawrence Ware, Sarahlyn Bruck and Al Baker discuss the various ethical and narrative issues surrounding the creation of artificial life.
We all watched M3GAN and Steve Spielberg AIand also touch After Yang, Former Machina, Two hundred year old manBBC programme Peopleand this is of course an element in classic sci-fi properties like Alien, Blade Runner, Star Treketc.
We also go on a tangent about AI writing academic papers.
We will mention EM Forster’s short stories “The Machine Stops” and Roger Zelazny’s “For a Breath I Tarry”.
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