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ICYMI: News About TAC’s New AI Podcast Series
“Thomas Aquinas College Launches 10-Episode Podcast About AI”
by Domenic Poli, The Recorder
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
For more information, please contact:
Chris Weinkopf, Executive Director of College Relations
805-421-5926 | pr@thomasaquinas.edu
Is an artificial intelligence model like ChatGPT capable of truly thinking and understanding? Does it have feelings? How about opinions or aspirations?
These are just some of the questions posed by Michael Augros as part of “The Mind and the Machine,” a 10-part video podcast series on AI produced by Thomas Aquinas College, New England, where he is a member of the teaching faculty. Augros aims to present the topic in easy-to-follow arguments, in a manner accessible to anyone with an interest in it.
“My background is in philosophy, and that has a lot to say about AI. So that’s kind of why there are 10 videos,” he said in his office in East Hall. “I’m hoping there will be more in the future — not on AI in particular, but more philosophical content, so we’ll see.”
The first three episodes have dropped and are available on YouTube, at http://www.thomasaquinas.edu/mind and on major podcasting platforms. A new episode will drop every week until the series is finished. In the first one, Augros considers the importance of analyzing artificial intelligence from a philosophical and theological perspective.
Read the whole thing in The Recorder
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About Thomas Aquinas College
With campuses in California and Massachusetts, Thomas Aquinas College has developed over the last half century a solid reputation for academic excellence in the United States and abroad. It is highly ranked by secular organizations, such as The Princeton Review and U. S. News, as well as Catholic guides, including the Cardinal Newman Society and the National Catholic Register. The college offers one, four-year, classical curriculum that spans the major arts and sciences. Instead of reading textbooks, students study the original works of the greatest thinkers in Western civilization — the Great Books — in all the major disciplines. Rather than listen to lectures, they work through these texts in small, rigorous classroom discussions. The academic life of the college is conducted under the light of the Catholic faith and flourishes within a close-knit community, supported by a vibrant spiritual life. Alumni consistently excel in the many world-class institutions at which they pursue graduate degrees in fields such as law, medicine, business, theology, and education.