Riviere, Sam
Conflicted Copy
- ISBN 13:
- 9780571380985
- author:
- Riviere, Sam
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Faber & Faber
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 56
- Dimensions:
- 13 x 19.5 x 0.5 centimetres (0.0
- Genre:
- Poetry, General, Computers,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Sam Riviere's latest work harnesses anxiety about AI to produce poems that cohere around a voice speaking of humanity's uncertainties, fears and desires. By using an open source neural network, Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 (GPT-2), he strips away the usual authorial clutter to reveal a unique poetic voice.
The result is a poetic revolution for our time, as Riviere turns poetry towards machine language. His 'machine language' often has a clunky, unplugged quality that reboots our perceptual apparatus and forces us to look at machines in a new light.