{"id":13917,"date":"2024-03-28T10:37:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T09:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/literary-theory-for-robots-by-dennis-yi-tenen-review-the-deep-roots-of-ai\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T10:37:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T09:37:25","slug":"literary-theory-for-robots-by-dennis-yi-tenen-review-the-deep-roots-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/literary-theory-for-robots-by-dennis-yi-tenen-review-the-deep-roots-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Theory for Robots by Dennis Yi Tenen review \u2013 the deep roots of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

A secret history of machine intelligence, from 14th century horoscopes to 1930s \u2018plot genies\u2019 for coming up with storylines<\/p>\n

Hark. The end is nigh. \u201cIn the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the factory-line worker,\u201d writes Dennis Yi Tenen near the start of Literary Theory for Robots. \u201cToday, it has come\u00a0for the writer, the professor, the physician, the programmer and the attorney.\u201d Like the end-of-the-planet movies that pelted the multiplexes at the turn of the millennium, newspapers and \u2013 increasingly \u2013 bookshops are awash with economists, futurologists and social semioticians talking up, down and about artificial intelligence. Even Henry Kissinger, in The Age of AI<\/a> (2021), spoke of \u201cepoch-making transformations\u201d and an imminent \u201crevolution in human affairs\u201d.<\/p>\n

Tenen, a tenured professor of English at New York\u2019s Columbia University, isn\u2019t nearly as apocalyptic as he initially makes out. His is an oddly titled book \u2013 do<\/em> robots need literary theory? Are we<\/em> the robots? \u2013 that has little in common with the techno-theory of writers such as Friedrich Kittler<\/a>, Donna Haraway<\/a> and N Katherine Hayles. For the most part, it\u2019s a call for rhetorical de-escalation. Relax, he says, machines and literature go back a long way; his goal is to reconstruct \u201cthe modern chatbot from\u00a0parts found on the workbench of\u00a0history\u201d using \u201cstrings of anecdote and light philosophical commentary\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nA secret history of machine intelligence, from 14th century horoscopes to 1930s \u2018plot genies\u2019 for coming up with storylines
\nHark. The end is nigh. \u201cIn the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the factory-line worker,\u201d writes Dennis Yi Tenen near the start of Literary Theory for Robots. \u201cToday, it has come\u00a0for the writer, the professor, the physician, the programmer and the attorney.\u201d Like the end-of-the-planet movies that pelted the multiplexes at the turn of the millennium, newspapers and \u2013 increasingly \u2013 bookshops are awash with economists, futurologists and social semioticians talking up, down and about artificial intelligence. Even Henry Kissinger, in The Age of AI (2021), spoke of \u201cepoch-making transformations\u201d and an imminent \u201crevolution in human affairs\u201d.
\nTenen, a tenured professor of English at New York\u2019s Columbia University, isn\u2019t nearly as apocalyptic as he initially makes out. His is an oddly titled book \u2013 do robots need literary theory? Are we the robots? \u2013 that has little in common with the techno-theory of writers such as Friedrich Kittler, Donna Haraway and N Katherine Hayles. For the most part, it\u2019s a call for rhetorical de-escalation. Relax, he says, machines and literature go back a long way; his goal is to reconstruct \u201cthe modern chatbot from\u00a0parts found on the workbench of\u00a0history\u201d using \u201cstrings of anecdote and light philosophical commentary\u201d. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A secret history of machine intelligence, from 14th century horoscopes to 1930s \u2018plot genies\u2019 for coming up with storylines Hark. The end is nigh. \u201cIn the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the factory-line worker,\u201d writes Dennis Yi Tenen near the start of Literary Theory for Robots. \u201cToday, it has come\u00a0for the writer, …<\/p>\n

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