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2021

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S4e3 : What Is Ai And What Roles Does It Play In Our Lives?, Ron Lisnet, Penny Rheingans, Roy Turner Mar 2021

S4e3 : What Is Ai And What Roles Does It Play In Our Lives?, Ron Lisnet, Penny Rheingans, Roy Turner

The Maine Question

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, sounds like a futuristic concept from science fiction movies, but is very much with us in the present day. We interact with this emerging technology on a daily basis when we apply for jobs, order groceries, access our bank accounts, apply for a loan and scroll through social media. In Episode 3 of Season 4 of “The Maine Question,” we examine AI, how it improves our lives and how it can cause problems. Penny Rheingans, director of the University of Maine’s School of Computing and Information Science, and Roy Turner, a UMaine associate professor of computer …