Robot Speak - Bagato, Jeff

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Résumé :
Artificially Intelligent machines are here and are already talking to each other. The poems, transactions, programs, and spells collected in this volume explore how AIs might use our language to make their own. It's impossible for the human observer to know if the machine is analyzing or tabulating data, performing a calculation, conducting a negotiation, or making a persuasive appeal. These texts occur in three different modes, each developing by permutations, repetition, and sound/rhythm. In the first mode, repetition of key words imitates a transactional language, as if a carnival barker is making a pitch to a potential audience, or as if a magician is reciting an incantation to summon a familiar spirit. In the second, a limited vocabulary is used as a transactional language. In the third, words generally found in the magical thinking of the day are used for far different ends. In the machine world of the future, communication could be mysticism or it could be control....

Biographie:
Jeff Bagato produces poetry and prose as well as electronic music, glitch video and visual art. His writing has appeared in a wide range of literary journals both online and in print, including Slipstream, Chiron Review, Futures Trading, Otoliths, Utsanga, Pedestal, Var(2x), Word for/Word, and many others. He has self published 22 books, including the poetry collection In the Engine Room with Bettie and Andrea Reading Pornography, and the novels Computing Angels, The Toothpick Fairy, and Dishwasher on Mars. A blog about his writing and publishing efforts can be found athttp://jeffbagato.wordpress.com....

Sommaire:
A multi-media artist living near San Antonio, Jeff Bagato produces poetry and prose as well as electronic music and glitch video. His recent books include In the Engine Room with Bettie and Andrea Reading Pornography (poetry), Gonch Poems, Robot Speak (poems), adn Savage Space (stories). He is also the author of Cthulhu Limericks, The Toothpick Fairy, and Computing Angels. His poetry and fiction have appeared in many journals including Slipstream, Chiron Review, Pedestal, Otoliths, Utsanga, Var (2x), Exquisite Corpse, and The Chamber. A blog about his writing and publishing efforts can be found at http://jeffbagato.com....