Nancy Fulda, herself a lettered student of artificial intelligence, joins us to talk about writing artificial intelligence believably. We fire questions at her so that you don't have to!

We talk about what's current, what's coming, and what it is that we're all expecting. We also cover some of the things that writers get wrong (at least insofar as they knock the cognoscenti out of the story.)

Liner Notes: Here's the article Howard mentioned, "Evolving a Conscious Machine," from the June 1998 Discover. He got the details almost 100% wrong, but the gist of it was still there.