First Half: Cognitive archaeologist Dr. Heather Lynn will bring us her research into the history of artificial intelligence and the claim that AI began long before Silicon Valley, 30,000 years ago when the first humans pressed ochre onto cave walls and started storing their minds outside their bodies. Dr. Lynn will share the results of her own experiments using AI to read undeciphered scripts, and she'll also tell us how we can stay human in the machine age.
Second Half: Author Andrea Perron is the eldest daughter of the Perron family, whose haunted history inspired the film The Conjuring. She'll discuss her father's memoir and share some of his most revealing experiences that changed the life of his entire family. Perron will also explain her own experiences and the extraordinary events that took place at the family farmhouse.