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Antebellum AI: “Maelzel's Chess-Player” and Poe's Reverse Constraints
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (1): 107–125.
Published: 01 March 2010
... with and significantly alters the Oulipian understanding of constraints as axioms that precede composition. Looking closely at Poe's earlier essay “Maelzel's Chess-Player” (1836) and the way it anticipates more recent debates in artificial intelligence, I show how Poe's (1984d [1846]: 13) constraint, as stated...
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A Critique of Control and Black Boxes: Lit Mods of Ian Hatcher’s “⌰ (Total Runout)”
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (4): 503–537.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Pilot suite, and it is presented in different versions: as a web-based work, sound piece, and performance. It remixes appropriated text from a WikiLeaked manual by the UK Ministry of Defence, essays on artificial intelligence, and Hatcher’s own text. The overall versions of the work, understood...
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The Author's Second Death
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 301–307.
Published: 01 June 2024
... to the fourteenth century, when Albert the Great, the famous scholastic philosopher nicknamed “Universal Doctor,” built a metal head that spoke and answered questions. His pupil, the future “Angelic Doctor” Saint Thomas Aquinas, takes fright and destroys this first artificial intelligence with a hammer. Medieval...
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On Artificial and Post-artificial Texts: Machine Learning and the Reader's Expectations of Literary and Non-literary Writing
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 331–361.
Published: 01 June 2024
... incorrect search result; Google then briefly lost $100 billion in market [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2024 artificial intelligence large language models reading authorship When it comes to the future of writing, ChatGPT is only...
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Notes on Contributors
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 367–371.
Published: 01 June 2024
... of Texas at Austin, where he helps run the Good Systems Grand Challenge, dedicated to making artificial intelligence better for society. He has published a book, Written on the Water: British Romanticism and the Maritime Empire of Culture , and is currently working on a monograph about stewardship...
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What Is an Artificial Author?
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 243–250.
Published: 01 June 2024
...-compression algorithm” but as literature? This is not just a rhetorical or hypothetical question. Computer-generated poetry has been published since the 1950s (see Beals 2018 ), and an editor of the recent collection I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks: Poems by code-davinci-002 raises the issue...
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Phantoms of Citation: AI and the Death of the Author-Function
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 223–231.
Published: 01 June 2024
... university assignments can prompt (as it were) the students who write them. Despite operating as the fulfillment of poststructuralist pronouncements, the problem of artificially intelligent LLM's generating fictitious citations brings certain issues into renewed focus. Observing ChatGPT's consistently...
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AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 363–366.
Published: 01 June 2024
... . New York : Oxford University Press , 2023 . 423 + xviii pp. Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2024 Emergent artificial intelligence (AI) technologies seem to augur a break between poetics today and the poetics of yesteryear. Were we to ask our handheld magic...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (1): 209–211.
Published: 01 February 2017
... and fMRI to explore the role of
perceptual features in the visual metaphor comprehension process. He also
worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Kyungpook National University in South
Korea from 2013 to 2016. During this period, he mostly focused on the
interdisciplinary aspects of artificial intelligence...
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Conversations with No One
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 291–299.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Leah Henrickson [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2024 artificial intelligence authorship large language models literary value reader response Why is reading literature important? Reading literature can mean reading...
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Applied Poetics
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 251–258.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Ed Finn [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2024 applied poetics imagination poiesis artificial intelligence language Poetics is the study of literature as “a system of possibilities,” distinguished from literary history...
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The Humanistic Case for AI Optimism
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 215–222.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Eamon Duede; Richard Jean So [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2024 artificial intelligence cultural studies humanities critical theory Across the humanities, the response to artificial intelligence (AI), particularly...
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AI Comes for the Author
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 267–274.
Published: 01 June 2024
... claims like these detains us from thinking about and preparing for what happens when machines can do these things. I can't predict what will come next, and whether we will achieve artificial general intelligence in a few weeks or a few years or a few decades. I simply don't know, and I have only...
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Notes on Contributors
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (4): 735.
Published: 01 December 2006
... Tristram Shandy (2004).
He is at work on a book on the eighteenth-century novel.
A native of Geneva, Switzerland, Marie-Laure Ryan is an independent scholar based
in Colorado. She is the author of Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative
Theory (1991), Narrative as Virtual Reality...
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LLMs and the Amazing Shrinking University
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 317–324.
Published: 01 June 2024
...://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/08/business/hiring-without-college-degree.html . Miller Claire Cain , and Cox Courtney . 2023 . “ In Reversal Because of A.I., Office Jobs Are Now More at Risk .” New York Times , August 24 . https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/upshot/artificial-intelligence-jobs.html...
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Modes of Intelligence
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 207–214.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Charles Altieri [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2024 artificial intelligence lyric experience Shakespeare Seduced by hype, I decided to test artificial intelligence (AI) by seeing what it could do in the production...
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Archetypes Embodied, Then and Now
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 317–339.
Published: 01 June 2017
... University Press ). Bostrom Nick Yudkowsky Eliezer 2014 “The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.” In The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence , edited by Ramsey William Frankish Keith , 316 – 34 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press ). Clark Andy 1997...
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Facsimile Machines
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 325–329.
Published: 01 June 2024
... understood. But as a longtime student of writing and writing technologies, I want to insist there is something qualitatively different about generative artificial intelligence and its impact, not just on writing instruction but on writing itself as a category of human expression. [email protected]...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (4): 719–720.
Published: 01 December 2002
... of
Possible Words, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory and of Narrative as Virtual
Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media which received
the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from the
Modern Language Association. Ryan is also...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 213–233.
Published: 01 June 2017
...) . Aristotle 2016 De Anima ( Oxford : Clarendon ). Austin J. L. 1979 Philosophical Papers ( Oxford : Oxford University Press ). Brooks Rodney A. 1991 “Intelligence without Representation,” Artificial Intelligence 47 , nos. 1 – 3 : 139 – 59 . Brown John Seely...
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