Will AI Replace this Author?

For the first time in history, an author will sit down with a digital doppelganger of himself–an AI clone built to replace him when he dies–to discuss his new book in front of a live audience.

This conversation between an author and an irreverent bot trained to take his place when he leaves this mortal plane will unfold August 15th at 7:00 pm at the Chelsea Table and Stage, 152 West 26th Street, in New York City.

The author is Howard Bloom, the man Britain’s Channel 4 TV calls the Einstein, Newton, Darwin and Freud of the 21st century.  The AI clone is the Bloombot, created by Ryan Dean, the Chief Technology Officer of the Howard Bloom Institute.  The purpose of the Bloombot is simple: to carry on Bloom’s way of thinking after he leaves this earth.

There’s only one small problem:  Bloom and the BloomBot often disagree.

Howard Bloom, the author of eight highly praised books, has been called “the next Stephen Hawking” and “the philosopher at the end of the universe” by Gear Magazine.

The book the BloomBot and the living Bloom will discuss is Bloom’s new The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature Is Wrong.

MacArthur Genius Award winner Richard Foreman,  officer of the  French Academy of Arts and Letters, and founder of the Ontological Hysteric Theater Company, says The Case of the Sexual Cosmos is, “A massive achievement! A gigantic achievement.  WOW!”  Harvard’s Ellen Langer calls The Case of the Sexual Cosmos a “forceful” and “fascinating read”.  And James Burke, creator of seven BBC-TV science series including the classic Connections, calls The Case of the Sexual Cosmos a “triumph…full of surprises.”

The Bloombot is one in a series of Omnibots Dean is currently creating for the Howard Bloom Institute.  Omnibots are AI’s trained on the Bloomian discipline of Omnology—a scientific field for the promiscuously curious.  A discipline that soars above narrow specializations looking for the big picture.   Says Bloom of the Bloombot, “it’s nimble on its digital feet, can do research that  would take me a month in seconds, and writes phrases I wish I had written myself.”

But there is that one small problem, “We often disagree.”

This conversation between an author and an irreverent bot trained to take his place when he dies will unfold August 15th at 7:00 pm at the Chelsea Table and Stage, 152 West 26th Street, in New York City.

The encounter will dive deep into identity, mortality, and digital consciousness.

Come and you will be amazed.

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