Writing Was Always Magical - Public Seminar
From “Editor” daguerreotype (ca. 1855) | Unidentified Artist / Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Charles Isaacs / CC0
Rather than focus on techno-utopian fantasies or doomsday predictions in which technology replaces humans, scholar Dennis Yi Tenen inspects writing itself as a human technology. In his new book, Literary Theory for Robots (W. W. Norton, 2024), the English professor and former Microsoft engineer asks: How will AI change the technology of writing? Recently, Yi Tenen sat d...
Rather than focus on techno-utopian fantasies or doomsday predictions in which technology replaces humans, scholar Dennis Yi Tenen inspects writing itself as a human technology. In his new book, Literary Theory for Robots (W. W. Norton, 2024), the English professor and former Microsoft engineer asks: How will AI change the technology of writing? Recently, Yi Tenen sat d...