“Literary Theory for Robots,” by Dennis Yi Tenen, a software engineer turned literature professor, shows how the “intelligence” in artificial intelligence is irreducibly human. By Jennifer Szalai When ...
I opened Dennis Yi Tenen’s slim new volume, “Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write,” expecting to be irritated. It was the subtitle, “How Computers Learned to Write,” that worried ...
A secret history of machine intelligence, from 14th-century horoscopes to 1930s ‘plot genies’ for coming up with storylines Hark. The end is nigh. “In the industrial age, automation came for the ...