ARTS & CULTURE
REMBRANDT EXHIBITION
An exhibition featuring a specific focus of Rembrandt is at The FitzwilliamMuseum, displaying etchings that were at the time attacked as ‘intolerable’ and ‘monstrous’ by critics because they veered away from the classical norms of beauty. Rembrandt and the Nude features studies of female nudes from the 1630s and two decades later. He depicted his models naturalistically, in informal poses, concentrating on sensuousness rather than the idealised body. His treatment was fiercely attacked until the mid-20th century and this exhibition challenges that view, so make up your own mind and go see. The exhibition is underway and continues till 23 February. fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
WREATH-MAKING EXPERIENCES
Enjoy a morning of Christmassy creativity with a gorgeous decoration to take home at the end. Amelia Cornish’s wreath-making workshops are taking place at the Packhorse Inn, Moulton, on 10 December and the Rupert Brooke, Grantchester, on the 13th. All materials and a festive two-course lunch are included. Priced at £75 per person. thepackhorseinn.com/christmas-2019
AI DEBATE AT CAMBRIDGE UNION
We are living in the age of intelligent machines, with AI permeating ever more aspects of our day-to-day lives. But is this technology as benign as many of us assume it to be, as we happily share our secrets with Siri and upload our selfies to FaceApp? Is it possible that AI will bring more harm than good? That’s the matter up for discussion on 21 November, in a debate being held in partnership with IBM Research. Participants include champion debater Harish Natarajan, law and ethics professor Sylvie Delacroix, and Neil Lawrence, the DeepMind professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge and the co-host of Talking Machines . Project Debator, an AI system that can debate humans on complex topics, will also be in attendance, going toe-to-toe with human debaters using crowdsourced arguments. The event is open to the public and more details are available via the Cambridge Union Facebook page
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