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The year 2025 marked the 50th Anniversary of the New York Amateur Computer Club.
Since 1975, we’ve been offering presentations, free and open to the public, on various topics pertaining to computer technology, from mundane to technical, from old to new.

NYACC General Meeting
Thursday, May 14th
at 7PM
(Join-in earlier at 6:45pm
for “Wellness Check Chatter”)

This meeting will be conducted online via Zoom

Artificial Intelligence — Part II
New Developments and A Deeper Look

Presented by
John Breitbart
NYACC Board Member

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	Can computers really think? Do computers have feelings, or souls? Is the Turing Test actually about deception? How fast are the latest developments arriving? The Great Replacement of Humans With Robots Is human extinction a possibility with AI superintelligence? The current status of AI regulation

This presentation is a follow-up on an AI talk that John Breitbart gave two months ago called “The Dark Side of AI” on March 12th. If you could not attend, the presentation is available on our NYACC Archive at: https://nyacc.substack.com/p/nyacc-2026-03-12-the-dark-side-of. You can view it here. NOTE: the video is loaded with the audio set on mute. Unmute it to hear the soundtrack.

It is also available on John’s YouTube channel called “Movement Sound Plus”. He needs help getting 50 subscribers for this channel so that he can qualify for unrestricted livestream. You can watch this March 12th talk on this site as well. Please click on Subscribe! Here is the link: https://youtu.be/_IZSu8ckRLo

Date and Time:
Thursday, May 14th, at 7 PM (Eastern Time) via Zoom.

Please email dbmetzger@yahoo.com
to receive details on accessing the Zoom meeting.

Please Note: Membership Dues for 2026 (For only $20, become a NYACC member or renew your existing membership) [Download Membership Form here]
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New York Amateur Computer Club
Email Forum and BBS and Live Chat Room

To get on the official mailing list to receive announcements about upcoming meetings at NYACC, visit the following URL and follow the prompts …

http://eepurl.com/jiB20w

The New York Amateur Computer Club email forum is a place where participants can exchange information and engage in discussions with each other about all matters relating to NYACC (including the posting of questions and answers regarding computer usage). To get started, visit the following URL and follow the prompts …

https://groups.io/g/TheNewYorkAmateurComputerClub

Club member Brendan Kidwell has set up a Bulletin Board System (BBS) and a live chat room for the New York Amateur Computer Club.

The BBS is for discussions about everything the club might discuss in our general or special interest group meetings. Messages are arranged by topic and thread. Ask your computer questions and share your expertise and experiences here!
This is also a good place for setting up trades and selling used equipment that others might need.
This will also be used for text announcements and to help us stay in touch.

The chat room allows us to text chat LIVE with each other as a group — whoever happens to be online in the chat room at any given moment.

BBS: https://nyacctalk.glump.net/

Chat room: https://web.libera.chat/#nyacc

Brendan will monitor and participate in both resources. If you have trouble accessing either system, please email Brendan directly at brendan@glump.net

New York Amateur Computer Club Archive

A comprehensive collection of information pertaining to our past meetings — including descriptions, presentation slides, hand-outs and audio/video recordings.
You can browse via the menu by date or by presenters, or you can simply search by keyword.

https://archive.nyacc.org/

New York Amateur Computer Club, Inc.
Planetarium Station
P.O. Box 1026
New York, N.Y. 10024

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Click here to see Highlights of Past Meetings !

Click here to watch recordings of sessions
at the March 2022 Trenton Computer Festival

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