Chris Kulp on Artificial Intelligence in 'Lost Origins'
About this episode
Chris Kulp discusses his novel 'Lost Origins' and the implications of artificial intelligence in science fiction.
Chris Kulp is a professional physicist and science fiction author, who has won the Mike Resnick award for his first published story ‘What Would You Pay for a Second Chance’. We talk about his second novel ‘Lost Origins’, a space opera where Earth is regarded as a myth by a galactic civilization peopled by humans and androids. Our conversation goes from a sci-fi story about artificial intelligence to one that explains how current AI models work, what they can and can't do, what they migh...
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Hosts: Marty Kurylowicz, Holly Carson
Guest: Chris Kulp
Topics covered
- artificial intelligence
- science fiction
- space opera
- current AI models
- galactic civilization
Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- science fiction
- space opera
- Chris Kulp
- Lost Origins
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Lost Origins, What Would You Pay for a Second Chance
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