meanderings

Literatronic

“Literatronic is an artificial intelligence engine that designs a fiction book specific to every reader based on her/his interaction with the system. “

AI, digital poetics, hypertext, writing

The Policeman’s Beard Is Half Constructed

“More than iron, more than lead, more than gold I need electricity.
I need it more than I need lamb or pork or lettuce or cucumber.
I need it for my dreams.”

Racter (an AI program that produced poetic prose) The Policeman’s Beard Is Half Constructed. 1983

AI, algorithm, digital poetics, generative, posthuman, writing

The FACETS Project

“The goal of the FACETS (Fast Analog Computing with Emergent Transient States) project is to create a theoretical and experimental foundation for the realisation of novel computing paradigms which exploit the concepts experimentally observed in biological nervous systems.”

AI, brain, embodiment

Daniel Suarez – Daemon: Bot-Mediated Reality

blog bot reads and writes for me
shop bot shops shops
sex bot sexes
bot bot bot bottom

AI, bot, singularity

John Cayley: Writing on Complex Surfaces

“The surface of writing is and always has been complex. It is a liminal symbolically interpenetrated membrane, a fractal coast- or borderline, a chaotic and complex structure with depth and history.”

3D, AI, language, paper, writing

GALE – Global Autonomous Language Exploitation

The goal of the DARPA GALE program is to develop and apply computer software technologies to absorb, analyze and interpret huge volumes of speech and text in multiple languages. Automatic processing “engines” will convert and distill the data, delivering pertinent, consolidated information in easy-to-understand forms to military personnel and monolingual English-speaking analysts in response to direct or implicit requests.

AI, lanugage, technology

Thinkography!

3D, AI, concrete, jhave, typography

Eitan Mendelowitz: Drafting Poems

Inverted Potentialities, 2002-2006

“Drafting Poems: Inverted Potentialities challenges preconceived notions of intelligence, creativity and authorship. In Drafting Poems, an artificially intelligent system reacts to user stimuli and creates meaningful poetry.”

AI, digital poetics, poems

Judd Morrissey

The Precession (2009 -) is a data-poetical new work-in-progress that mixes original writing, real-time twitter feed choruses, and algorithmic composition in an evolving ecology.

The Error Engine is a work of digital prose that is developing the capability to contribute to its own authorship, and, eventually, to evolve itself indefinitely.

AI, digital poetics, installation, writing

Mark Tilden

exhibit research | Mark Tilden interview

Q: Would you say that these robots have some type of creativity?

A: As yet, we have not seen that. What we have seen are devices which we call the queens, which are one of our nervous net controllers, embedded into another form of nervous net controller. And what that allows us to do is make devices that are, in fact, capable of learning, that are subject to moods.

AI, affect, creativity, queen

Neurotechnology: Growing a Brain

“Researchers opened thousands of rat skulls over the years,
removed their brains, and cut them into thin slices,
which they kept alive.”

AI, brain, cruelty, epistemology, killing, neuroscience

Marvin Minsky:

No one finds it surprising these days when we make machines that do logical things, because logic is based on clear, simple rules of the sorts that computers can easily use. But Love, by its nature, some people would say, cannot be explained in mechanical ways — nor could we ever make machines that possess any such human capacities as feelings, emotions, and consciousness…”

“…emotional states are not especially different from the processes that we call ‘thinking’…”(p.6)

AI, consciousness, love

“This study generates predictions about the evolutionary conditions conducive to the emergence of communication and provides guidelines for designing artificial evolutionary systems displaying spontaneous communication.”

Floreano et al., Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication in Robots,Current Biology (2007), doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.01.058

AI, emergence, evolution

“Think of the 100 billion times per day humans click on a Web page as a way of teaching the Machine what we think is important. Each time we forge a link between words, we teach it an idea.”

Kevin Kelly. We are the Web. Wired. Issue 13.08 – August 2005

AI, emergence, learning, networks, neuroscience