Late Lessons, Jensen Huang and AI

Book notes#

Chapter notes on Films from the Future (2018).

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Notes: Films from the Future (2018), batch FFTF-A 6,138 Source: working/maynard/book/FFTF-A.txt, read in full. It holds Ch1 “In the Beginning” (pp. 14–26), Ch2 “Jurassic Park: The Rise of Resurrection Biology” (pp. 27–45), Ch14 “Looking to the Future” (pp. 287–291) and the…
Films from the Future (2018), Chapters 3–5: reading notes (batch FFTF-B) 8,055 Source: working/maynard/book/FFTF-B.txt, read in full. Andrew Maynard, Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies (2018). - Ch 3, Never Let Me Go: A Cautionary Tale of Human Cloning, pp. 46–62 -…
Notes on Films from the Future (2018), Chapters 6–7 (batch FFTF-C) 7,058 Source: working/maynard/book/FFTF-C.txt, read in full (PDF pp.109–152). Page numbers below are the PDF page markers, which match the printed pages. Where a quote runs across a page break, both pages are given.
Notes: Films from the Future (2018), Chapters 8–9 (batch FFTF-D) 9,767 Source: working/maynard/book/FFTF-D.txt, read in full (PDF pp. 153–206; page markers are PDF pages, which match the printed pages). - Ch 8, Ex Machina: AI and the Art of Manipulation: pp. 153–178 - Ch 9, Transcendence:…
Notes on Films from the Future (2018), Chapters 10–11 (batch FFTF-E) 7,872 Source: working/maynard/book/FFTF-E.txt (PDF pp. 207–249; the PDF page markers match the printed page numbers). I read the whole file. It holds two complete chapters. Chapter 11 ends on p. 249 with a lead-in to Chapter…
Notes on Films from the Future (2018), batch FFTF-F: Chapters 12 and 13 8,656 Source: working/maynard/book/FFTF-F.txt, read in full (PDF pp. 250–286; the page markers match the printed page numbers). The chapters are Ch12, The Day After Tomorrow: Riding the Wave of Climate Change (pp. 250–270),…