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Book Launch: 40th Anniversary Edition of Killing Floor by Ai

Portland Union Station 800 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us in the Metropolitan Lounge of Portland’s Union Station to celebrate our 40th Anniversary Edition of Ai’s groundbreaking second poetry collection, KILLING FLOOR! Featuring a host of readers, including Stephanie Adams-Santos and Zachary Schomburg. Free drinks and snacks. Books for sale. Open to the public. PLUS: Tavern has commissioned poet/artist/publisher Zachary Schomburg to create an original hand-sketched portrait of Ai on the occasion of KILLING FLOOR’s 40th anniversary. Zach will be selling prints of this gorgeous portrait at the event. They’re limited edition, so get one while you can! *Parking free after 7pm. *Enter station through lobby and follow signs to the Metro Lounge. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ai, who described herself as 1/2 Japanese, 1/8 Choctaw-Chickasaw, 1/4 Black, and 1/16 Irish, was born in…

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Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Despite the hype surrounding AI, creating an intelligence that rivals or exceeds human levels is far more complicated than we have been led to believe. The achievements in the field thus far have occurred in closed systems with fixed sets of rules, and these approaches are too narrow to achieve genuine intelligence. The real world, in contrast, is wildly complex and open-ended. Gary Marcus’s Rebooting AI (Pantheon) (coauthored by Ernest Davis) provides a clear-eyed assessment of the current science and offers an inspiring vision of how a new generation of AI can make our lives better.

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Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Melanie Mitchell separates science fact from science fiction in a sweeping examination of the current state of AI and how it is remaking our world. Interweaving stories about the science and the people behind it, Mitchell’s Artificial Intelligence (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) brims with clear-sighted, captivating, and approachable accounts of the most interesting and provocative modern work in AI.

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PNCA Graduate Symposium 2021: Speculative Futures

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Hallie Ford School of Graduate studies (HFSGS) at PNCA is pleased to announce the 2021 Graduate Symposium theme: “Speculative Features.” This symposium will consider how contemporary artists render algorithmic harms visible and imagine speculative futures optimized for just outcomes. The two-day event will facilitate conversations on the ethical, environmental, political, social, and economic impacts of artificial intelligence and machine learning for artists, designers, makers, writers, researchers, and cultural workers. Featuring the work of Amelia Winger-Bearskin, an artist who innovates with technology to make a positive impact on her community and the environment, and Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, a scholar and curator exploring the intersections of algorithmic justice and visual art, Speculative Futures explores how artificial intelligence shapes political imaginaries of what is yet to come. SCHEDULE:…

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Ram Shankar Siva Kumar & Hyrum Anderson

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United States

In Not With A Bug, But With A Sticker (Wiley), adversarial machine learning researchers Ram Shankar Siva Kumar and Hyrum Anderson deliver a riveting account of the most significant risk to artificial intelligence systems: cybersecurity threats. The authors take you on a sweeping tour — from inside secretive government organizations to academic workshops at ski chalets to Google’s cafeteria — recounting how major AI systems remain vulnerable to the exploits of bad actors of all stripes. Siva Kumar and Anderson outline the different ways any AI system — from Alexa to Tesla — can be manipulated by adversaries. Their book is aimed at a general audience, and, in playful language and anecdotes, attempts to answer a multitude of questions: How to subvert these AI systems?…

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