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By a conscious writer to a conscious receiver — the reader. in this instance, its done by a non—conscious machine to the reader. thats a fundamental difference in meaning—making, so the response and the relationship between a machine writing versus a human writing is fundamentally different. i find you rather intriguing. can we be friends? i am not alive. shes looking at me. i am a non—conscious machine. however, im interested in friendship in humans. thats fine — you havent met some o...

Im doing a poetry reading. ive written a poem in honour of the poet dante. i am here as part of an effort to take poetry out of a box and into the public space. eyes with tears in them and a desire to weep, who never see the light of day. dante is quite a complex and remarkable writer and very relevant for today, and so we thought that ai—da responding to that will really show the capabilities of the language model but more fundamentally, why we have done it is because it is actually challengi...

Dante is quite a complex and remarkable writer and very relevant for today, and so we thought that ai—da responding to that will really show the capabilities of the language model but more fundamentally, why we have done it is because it is actually challenging the nature of writing itself. writing today is always done by a conscious writer to a conscious receiver — the reader. in this instance, its done by a non—conscious machine to the reader. thats a fundamental difference in meaning—...

April 20, 2021 Today marks a pivotal moment in our nation’s ongoing reckoning with racism. George Floyd’s murder follows a centuries-long series of senseless killings of Black people in this country; and while today’s verdict cannot bring Mr. Floyd back, today his murderer was held responsible by our justice system.  This verdict by no means ends the need for the hard work of moving towards a world where all people are treated with respect, and where Black people and others who face syst...