AI and Ada by Mark Seligman - 9781839994371

AI and AdaArtificial Translation and Creation of Literature\nAuthor(s): Mark Seligman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Anthem Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: First Hill Books\nISBN-13: 9781839994371, 978-1839994371\nSynopsis\nThe books Preface places the current AI explosion in the context of other technological cataclysms and recounts the authors personal (and not always deadly serious) AI journey. Chapter One (Extracting the Essence) assesses the potential of machine translation of literature, exploiting Vladimir Nabokovs hyperconscious literary art as a reference point. Chapter Two (Toward an Artificial Nabokov) goes on to speculate on possibilities for actual artificial creation of literature. Chapter Three (Large Literary Models? Intelligence and Language in the LLM Era) explains recent spectacular progress in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), as exemplified by Large Language Models like ChatGPT. On the way, the chapter ventures to tackle perennial questions (What is inte.