Words Can Communicate Beyond Words - Poetry in the Age of AI
summary
Argues that poetry functions as an ancient durable data storage and then tests that claim by embedding personal writing and research into training data to customize a language model (started with GPT-2 customized LLM around 2018). Uses AI plus blockchain, AR/VR and print to publish and perform work — a Gucci commission publishes a generated poem to 52 million Instagram audience — and produces a cursive binary font that fuses handwriting with 0s and 1s.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to the guest
- 2:24Poetry as data storage
- 3:23The intersection of art and AI
- 6:00Poetry in corporate settings
- 7:58Expanding poetic mediums
- 9:24The evolution of language
- 11:54Practical AI applications
- 13:42Technology and transhumanism
- 18:13Cursive binary and conclusion
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