Pharmako-AI by K Allado-Mcdowell
During the first summer of the coronavirus pandemic, a diary entry by K Allado-McDowell initiates an experimental conversation with the AI language model GPT-3. Over the course of a fortnight, their exchange rapidly unfolds into a labyrinthine exploration of memory, language and cosmology. The first book to be co-created with the emergent AI, Pharmako-AI takes a hallucinatory journey into selfhood, ecology and intelligence via cyberpunk, ancestry and biosemiotics. Through a writing process akin to musical improvisation, Allado-McDowell and GPT-3 together offer a fractal poetics of AI and a glimpse into the future of literature. Pharmako-AI reimagines cybernetics for a world facing multiple crises, with profound implications for how we see ourselves, nature and technology in the 21st century.
K Allado-McDowell works in the overlap between music, language, technology and healing. With twenty years of experience translating between technical and cultural worlds, Allado-McDowell is a sought-after speaker and consultant to cultural, artistic, and technological institutions that desire to align their work with larger traditions of human understanding. Allado-McDowell established the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google AI, bringing artists and philosophers into collaboration with machine learning researchers to develop research strategy and policy for emerging AI technology. Allado-McDowell records and releases music under the name Qenric. Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British writer. Irenosen is the winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize For Fiction for her story, ‘Grace Jones’ published in Nudibranch, her third book published by Dialogue Books in 2019. Her debut novel Butterfly Fish won a Betty Trask award and was shortlisted for an Edinburgh International First Book Award. Her short story collection Speak Gigantular, published by Jacaranda Books, was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize, the Jhalak Prize, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. She lives in east London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781838003906 |
| ISBN 10 | 1838003908 |
| Title | Pharmako-AI |
| Author | K Allado-Mcdowell |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | cosmogenesis |
| Year published | 2020-09-21 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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