Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned Christopher Cantwell On the streets of eighteenth-century

On the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo

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At least that's what she tells herself

Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned Christopher Cantwell On the streets of eighteenth-centuryLiterary 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 Tenen