Course Description: Get an introduction to and experience with artificial intelligence—past, present, and future. This course walks you through major AI milestones, current applications, societal impacts, and how governments and industries are trying to regulate it. You’ll also explore how you can use AI yourself, with demonstrations of tools for writing, planning, researching, and more.

Instructor: Paul Pierson has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering, an MS degree in Systems Engineering, and an MBA. Starting as a design engineer, his distinguished career included multiple senior management positions with RCA, General Electric, Martin Marietta and Lockheed Martin. He helped develop innovations for a variety of systems, including the creation and management of an Advanced Robotics Technology Laboratory which leveraged AI technologies emerging in the 1980s for servicing satellites in space and for automating parcel handling at the USPS.

Schedule: 6 sessions, Mondays, Sept. 28, Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26, Nov. 2; 10:30am–Noon.

Location: Room 203, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 801 Atlantic Ave., Fernandina Beach.

Cost: $40