If topics like artificial intelligence or crypto literature have ever intrigued, excited, intimidated or even disgusted you, then please take out 90-minutes to listen to this episode with Sasha Stiles. I promise you it will be worth it.
Sasha is a poet, artist and AI researcher probing the intersection of text and technology. Her cross-media work is extremely experimental in nature and has been recognised on stages like the Future Art Awards, the Museum of Contemporary Digital Art and New York Fashion Week.
As well as being a writer, she is a poetry mentor to two AI robots. She is constantly pushing the frontiers of human-machine collaboration and challenging our assumptions about cognition and creativity.
In our conversation, Sasha shares her journey and also gives listeners a primer on complex topics such as AI and web3. We cover a lot of ground, applying a philosophical lens to everything we discuss.
It was a joy speaking with Sasha and she inspired me to dive deeper in my literary experiments. It's rare to meet someone working on the bleeding edge; and even rarer when that person does so with real sensitivity and empathy.
I feel there's something for everyone in this conversation and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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Say hi to Sasha on Twitter: www.twitter.com/sashastiles
Say hi to Dhru on Twitter: www.twitter.com/dhrupadkarwa
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Mentioned:
litvisions.substack.com - for essays, podcast summaries, novel suggestions and discussions on the future of literature
Technelegy by Sasha Stiles
theVERSEverse.com - a poetry NFT gallery
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Show notes:
0:00 - Introduction
01:53 - What poetry means to her
05:55 - Poems as data storage
07:27 - Defining AI in literature
13:10: On fearing AI
20:03 - Teaching poetry to robots
29:29 - Interplay between humans and machines
55:26 - Are robots 'real'?
01:10:30 - AI poems about gardening
01:15:01 - web3, cryptopoetry and literary NFTs