Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
Dennis Yi Tenen, "Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write "
English | ISBN: 0393882187 | 2024 | 176 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 0393882187 | 2024 | 176 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the seamstress. Today, it has come for the writer, physician, programmer, and attorney.
Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In this provocative reflection on the shared pasts of literature and computer science, former Microsoft engineer and professor of comparative literature Dennis Yi Tenen provides crucial context for recent developments in AI, which holds important lessons for the future of humans living with smart technology.
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