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Literary Theory for Robots - Dennis Yi Tenen

Literary Theory for Robots

How Computers Learned to Write

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Buch | Softcover
176 Seiten
2025
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-10505-3 (ISBN)
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“Surprising, funny and resolutely unintimidating.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times Book Review

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.

Intelligence expressed through technology should not be mistaken for a magical genie, capable of self-directed thought or action. Rather, in highly original and effervescent prose with a generous dose of wit, Yi Tenen asks us to read past the artifice—to better perceive the mechanics of collaborative work. Something as simple as a spell-checker or a grammar-correction tool, embedded in every word-processor, represents the culmination of a shared human effort, spanning centuries.

Smart tools, like dictionaries and grammar books, have always accompanied the act of writing, thinking, and communicating. That these paper machines are now automated does not bring them to life. Nor can we cede agency over the creative process. With its masterful blend of history, technology, and philosophy, Yi Tenen’s work ultimately urges us to view AI as a matter of labor history, celebrating the long-standing cooperation between authors and engineers.

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 Columbia’s Data Science Institute. He lives in New York City.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 18.3.2025
Zusatzinfo 7 illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 211 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Informatik Theorie / Studium Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-324-10505-4 / 1324105054
ISBN-13 978-1-324-10505-3 / 9781324105053
Zustand Neuware
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