HeyJaredBiblioFiles: A CenterForLit Podcast about Great Books, Great Ideas, and the Great Conversation
In which the CenterForLit staff embarks on a quest to discover the Great Ideas of literature in books of every description: ancient classics to fresh bestsellers; epic poems to bedtime stories.
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AI: "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1950) (opens the original)
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Well, we didn’t see that coming! In this episode, the crew discusses a lesser known story by the author of Fahrenheit 451, and we end up surprised by where it takes us. Bradbury’s presentation of a post-apocalyptic world decimated by nuclear war delivers an expected elegy for lost civilization, but stops short of condemning technology in the process. In fact, AI’s role in the story invites us to a conversation about the beauty and necessity of art. This is a public episode. If you'd like to disc
AI: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (1950) (opens the original)
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The Center For Lit crew returns with a brand new season where we tackle one of the most pressing issues of our time: artificial intelligence . We quickly discover that the issue is not particularly new; thinkers and writers have been mulling it over for years, and we’ve got some great stories to show for their efforts. In this episode, we discuss Isaac Asimov’s classic meditation on artificial intelligence and identify the basic questions that will guide us throughout the season. Hold on tight,
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