Silicon Valley Reads authors talk AI at Jan. 30 event – The Mercury News

Silicon Valley Reads kicks off on Jan. 30 with a free in-person and live-streamed occasion at De Anza Faculty in Cupertino. Sal Pizarro of the Mercury Information will average a dialogue with the authors of the three featured books.

The countywide group engagement program options books on the theme “Empowering Humanity: Know-how for a Higher World.”

The books chosen for Silicon Valley Reads discover the ramifications of synthetic intelligence, from a nonfiction work about AI’s potential affect on society to fictional tales about how it may be used for each exploitation and connection

Just lately dubbed “The Godmother of AI” by Wired Journal, Dr. Fei-Fei Li shares her private journey and insights into the event and potential of the know-how in “The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery on the Daybreak of AI.”

“The Mountain within the Sea,” a sci-fi novel by former Santa Clara College professor Ray Nayler, follows a marine biologist who’s learning a extremely smart octopus species, sparking a worldwide race to know and probably exploit the species.

“Loneliness and Firm” by Charlee Dyroff is about in a near-future New York, the place isolation has seemingly been eradicated. The novel follows a lady tasked with coaching an AI companion.

Silicon Valley Reads is introduced yearly by the Santa Clara County Library District, Santa Clara County Workplace of Schooling and San José Public Library.

Register to attend the kickoff occasion at siliconvalleyreads.org, the place a whole schedule of occasions needs to be accessible in mid-January.