Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
In putting the algorithm in charge gramatically, researchers abnegate their own complicity—and by extension, our agency in the matter.
Dennis Yi Tenen • Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
AI sounds like a relation between my intellect and technology, where, in reality, it implicates a process of collective decision-making, happening between me and other humans, by the proxy of technology.
Dennis Yi Tenen • Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
If there has to be one, take it as this book’s punchline—intellect requires artifice, and therefore labor.
Dennis Yi Tenen • Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
artificial intelligence belongs to a species of political Leviathans, projecting concerted collective action at a distance.
Dennis Yi Tenen • Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
In the applied world, intelligence bubbles above shared capacity. But no matter how cleverly effervescent, once a smart tool reaches general adoption, it dissipates into the surface of baseline intelligence.
Dennis Yi Tenen • Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
I used the Latin Word Study Tool from the Perseus Project, which compiles more than sixteen million Latin words,
Dennis Yi Tenen • Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
History’s subtle advantage lies in the revealing of trajectories through time.
Dennis Yi Tenen • Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
Platonic universal rationalism tolerates contingent, nonrational paths to enlightenment.
Dennis Yi Tenen • Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
Not long ago, one way of appearing smart involved memorizing a bunch of obscure facts—to become a walking encyclopedia. Today, that way of knowing seems like a waste of precious mental space.