"Poetry and artificial intelligence can appear as oppositesone deeply human; the other cold and mechanical. Sasha Stiles sees them as expressions of the same impulse. Poetry, the Kalmyk- American poet argues, is one of our most ancient and enduring technologies, a system of meter and rhyme invented to store vital information. She views AI as its natural heir. Stiles's path to AI began with literature, not code."
"But science was never distant: Her parents are documentary filmmakers who worked with Carl Sagan on the original Cosmos series, and she grew up traveling with them as they interviewed scientists and philosophers. She came of age with the Internet and sensed how it shaped the way she thought and wrote. When she encountered the technology underpinning modern AI in 2019, she didn't want to just write about itshe wanted to write with it."
Sasha Stiles frames poetry as an ancient technology that uses meter and rhyme to store vital information and regards artificial intelligence as a natural heir to that linguistic practice. Her upbringing combined literature and science through parents who made documentaries with Carl Sagan, and the Internet shaped her thinking and writing. Encountering transformer-based architectures in 2017 prompted experimentation with AI as tool, collaborator, and medium rather than merely a subject. She researched early practitioners of language-based AI art and began creating with models well before mainstream chatbots emerged.
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