Workshop: Screen and Scholar: Martyn Smith, Her
September 12 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Singularity of Her, or Back to the AI Future
In 2013 director Spike Jonze released a film that depicted a fully imagined near future, and at its center was a romantic relationship between a human being and an AI. In the course of a decade, as AI systems improved dramatically, this subject matter went from speculative sci-fi to the stuff of serious news articles. Examine this provocative treatment not only of agentic AI, but also the tech Singularity.