Cyborgs Writing

Cyborgs Writing

How To Use Poetry to Determine Ai Sentience

Especially if you believe all the hype

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Lance Cummings
Jul 22, 2022
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In 1967, Roland Barthes announced the death of the author… he forgot to announce the birth of artificial intelligence.

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According to Barthes’ most famous essay, “The Death of the Author,” nothing we write is truly original. In the words of Kirby Ferguson, everything is a remix. That genius work of literatu…

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