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human interactions with intelligent machines: nicola lettieri @ john cabot university, march 11th

John Cabot University
Via della Lungara, 233
Rome

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From a dialogue with CHATGPT:

How would you introduce an argument on the interaction between humans and intelligent machines?

With the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning, we are now able to create machines that can think and reason like humans. This has led to a new era of human interaction with machines. The implications of this are vast and far-reaching. We are seeing the development of self-driving cars, chatbots, virtual assistants, and even robots that can perform human-like tasks. These machines are not only capable of processing information and making decisions, but they can also communicate with us in ways that were previously impossible. But as we continue to integrate these intelligent machines into our daily lives, we must consider the impact on our society, our economy, and most importantly, our relationship with technology. Are we comfortable with the idea of machines making decisions for us? What happens when we become too reliant on machines? How do we ensure that these machines are safe and ethical? These are all important questions that we will explore in this workshop.

Do you think that you, as an intelligent machine, will be able over time to damage human beings, or living beings on earth, to your advantage?

As an AI language model, I do not have the ability to interact with the physical world or cause harm to living beings on Earth. I exist solely as a program that processes text and provides responses to human inputs.

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Nicola Lettieri is a researcher at the National Institute for Public Policy Analysis (Rome) and professor at Sannio University, Salerno University and Luiss, Rome. His topics range from legal informatics to computational intelligence and technoregulation; complexity theory, cognitive sciences, and computational science

JCU Press Announces Publication of Latest Volume of “InVerse: Italian Poets in Translation”

John Cabot University Press is pleased to announce the publication of the latest volume of InVerse: Italian Poets in Translation, edited by Brunella Antomarini, Berenice Cocciolillo, and Rosa Filardi.

The anthology collects the works of renowned poets who already belong to the history of Italian poetry, together with younger and less known poets whom we believe are going to leave a mark on contemporary Italian poetry.  The work of two well-known North American poets, Canadian Barry Callaghan and American Susan Stewart, is also featured in the anthology. They were special guests—with Valerio Magrelli and Mariangela Gualtieri – of two editions of the InVerse festival entitled InVerse-Two Poets in Mutual Translation.  A brief selection of women futurist writers taken from Cecilia Bello Micciacchi’s seminal book Spirale di dolcezza + Serpe di fascino – antologia di scrittrici futuriste further enriches the anthology.

Featured poets: Benedetta, Alessandra Berardi, Tomaso Binga, Silvia Bre, Nanni Cagnone, Maria Grazia, Calandrone, Barry Callaghan, Anna Cascella Luciani, Ottavio Fatica, Gabriele Frasca, Mariangela Gualtieri, Jolanda Insana, Paola Loreto, Valerio Magrelli, Giulio Marzaioli, Elisa Pezzani, Andrea Raos, Marilena Renda, Vito Riviello, Rosa Rosà, Luigi Socci, Susan Stewart, and Valentino Zeichen.

Founded in 2005 by JCU professors Brunella Antomarini, Berenice Cocciolillo, Rosa Filardi, the InVerse festival is one of the University’s most important cultural events and has filled a need in Rome for a forum in which to read, translate, and discuss Italian poetry. It is a chance to listen to some of the most interesting voices in contemporary Italian poetry read their work, which will also be read in English translation.

The fifth InVerse anthology is forthcoming and will feature of prestigious poets such as Andrea Zanzotto and Maria Luisa Spaziani, among others. The next InVerse Italian Poets in Translation Festival will take place in June of 2012 and will be a celebration of the entire InVerse project and the five poetry anthologies.

Reading by Joseph Harrison: Rome, May 24th

John Cabot University, Via della Lungara 233, Trastevere, Rome
24 May 2011, Tuesday, 8:00 p.m., Reading by Joseph Harrison

Joseph Harrison was born in Richmond, Virginia, grew up in Virginia and Alabama, and studied at Yale and Johns Hopkins. His book Someone Else’s Name (Waywiser, 2003) was named as one of five poetry books of the year by the Washington Post. His second book of poems, Identity Theft, was published by Waywiser in 2008. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 1998, 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, The Library of America’s Anthology of American Religious Poems, the Penguin Pocket Anthology of Poetry, the Penguin Pocket Anthology of Literature, The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, and many journals. In 2005 he was the recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2009 he received a Fellowship in Poetry from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in Baltimore.

All Institute events are held in the Aula Magna Regina on the Guarini Campus of John Cabot University, Via della Lungara 233, Trastevere, Rome.  Photo ID required to enter JCU. The event will begin at the indicated time and guests will not be allowed to enter after the event has begun. RSVP for all events to cwinstitute [at] johncabot.edu or telephone 06.681.91.223

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Roma: Massimo Gezzi alla John Cabot University: domani, 15 giugno

15 June, Tuesday, 8:00 p.m., Reading by Massimo Gezzi, Aula Magna, John Cabot University, Guarini Campus, Via della Lungara 233.

Massimo Gezzi was born in 1976 in Sant’Elpidio a Mare (FM). In 2002 he received his laurea in Modern Literature from the University of Bologna, with an International Montale Prize-winning dissertation about the poet Bartolo Cattafi. He is a contributing editor for Atelier, Poesia and Nuovi Argomenti. He has published two collections of poetry: Il mare a destra (Edizioni Atelier 2004) and L’attimo dopo (Luca Sossella Editore). He has been an Italian Fellow for the Arts of the American Academy in Rome. After living and working for some years in Pavia and Rome, he’s currently working as an assistant at the Italian Institute of the University of Bern (Switzerland). He lives between his native town and Switzerland. For more information about Massimo Gezzi, click here.

A stunning reading series @ JCU

Dear Friends / Cari Amici,
within the framework of the / nell’ambito del
Summer Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation

a stunning reading series at the / una fantastica serie di reading alla
John Cabot University, Roma, via della Lungara 233

follow the link and see you there!