Senior Center Book Discussion: I, Robot

Call the Senior Center for details and to register at 203-834-6240. 
Comstock Community Center, 180 School Road, Wilton.

Please join us as Michael Hess leads a discussion of Isaac Asimov's I, Robot. Isaac Asimov is often called one of the fathers of science fiction and his massive literary output set the standard for decades of speculative fiction. In this collection of several related short stories written in the 1940s, he lays out an evolutionary sequence of our relationship to robots from a non-talking companion for a child in 2015 to, decades later, space-faring industrial machines with advanced artificial intelligence. It will be interesting for the discussion group to compare and contrast recent learning from AI with Asimov's timeline in the book, which also premiered Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics - still highly relevant today as we grapple with controlling our very rapidly evolving technology. The Chicago Tribune said the book is “tremendously exciting and entertaining….Asimov dramatizes an interesting question: How can we live with machines that, generation by generation, grow more intelligent than their creators and not eventually clash with our own invention?”

This group meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month from September through May, excluding December. Call the Senior Center for details and to register at 203-834-6240. Comstock Community Center, 180 School Road, Wilton.