For our March monthly online book discussion, Austin Forum board member and AMD Senior Fellow, Mike Ignatowski, will lead us in a conversation about the book “Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology.” In this historical account that reads like a thriller, Chris Miller brings context to the current state of microchip […]
The 2013 movie “Her” is a wonderful science fiction movie about AI having evolved to the point of general intelligence, even sentience. There are no robotics in this AI movie—it is all about the powerful but human-like AI capabilities of his “OS.” “Her” is inspiring and thought-provoking but represents a realistically still far away or […]
For our August monthly online discussion, friend of the Austin Forum and Professor Emeritus at The University of Texas at Austin, J. Craig Wheeler, will lead us in a conversation about the power of our personal data within this new age of the information economy. Through his book, Who Owns the Future?, Jaron Lanier, Silicon […]
