Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write

by Dennis Yi Tenen

Book Overview

Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In this provocative reflection on the shared pasts of literature and computer science, former Microsoft engineer and professor of comparative literature Dennis Yi...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393882187
• ISBN13: 9780393882186
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 7.6"