The Illusion of Depth

First of all, a sincere apology to everyone.  As you have probably deduced by now, there will be no presentation on the 28th of May and I'm afraid I will need to cancel next week as well. I am so sorry about all the continuing uncertainty; it's incredibly unfair (and unprofessional) but most of you will be aware by now that I am dealing with some very difficult and painful family health matters. The irony is that A.I. (the subject of our current "film" series) is more relevant than ever before. As I write this, the new Pope has just issued his first papal "Encyclical", describing A.I. as a "modern Tower of Babel" (an interesting metaphor to choose, considering Large Language Models are literally made of language). Pope Leo apparently considers AI to be the defining threat of the modern age; more pressing than terrorism, famine; disease, religious fundamentalism, gender inequality, or even those old Catholic stand-bys: birth control and gay marriage...