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Literary Theory for Robots
How Computers Learned to Write
Series: A Norton Short
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Chatbots are sure to have a significant impact on the way we read, write, and think. For better or worse, they are being used to find information, influence public opinion, diagnose illness, and shape political discussion online. How did we get to this point, and what...
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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 defence 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 human living with smart technology.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780393882186
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 06 February 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 147.0mm
Height: 218.0mm
Weight: 314g
Pages: 176
About the Author
Dennis Yi Tenen is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Originally a software engineer at Microsoft, Yi Tenen is now an affiliate of Columbiaβs Data Science Institute. He lives in New York City.
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