Artificial Intelligence: Tutor, Collaborator, and Creative Ally, but also Hallucinator, Intellectual Thief and Polluter

In Person and Live Streamed on the SFL YouTube Channel

Join Marc Zimmer, computational chemist at Connecticut College, for a lively and thought-provoking talk on artificial intelligence. Love it, hate it, use it or abuse it, AI is going to change our lives for better and worse. Zimmer will introduce key AI concepts and examine the technology’s double-edged nature. Come curious. Leave questioning.

Marc Zimmer (born July 26, 1961) is the Jean Tempel ’65 Professor of Professor of Chemistry at Connecticut College.[1][2][3] He has published seven books,[4][5] written articles on science and medicine for the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Huffington Post, etc. He has been interviewed or quoted in the Economist,[6] Science, Nature etc.

Zimmer curates the GFP website,[7][8] tweets about GFP (@lightUpScience) and he has published over 60 research papers about cow flatulence, computational chemistry and bioluminescence in fireflies and jellyfish. Zimmer is the initiator and director of the Connecticut College Science Leaders program, a program to increase the number of women and minority students graduating from the college with a degree and research experience in the sciences.