Is Language Worldless. On Poetry and Al–a symposium on poetry, language, embodiment, and LLMs with Asia Bazdyrieva, Yevgenia Belorusets, Maxime Garcia Diaz, Metahaven, and Eugene Ostashevsky–taking place in Leipzig at HALLE 14 on March 23, 2024, as part of the Leipzig Book Fair. In 2023, OpenAl, the company developing ChatGPT, published a list of human occupations that it predicts as endangered by the rise of Al. Topping the list of threatened vocations were poets. So, does a computationally optimized method for concatenating words–such as a Large Language Model–produce or understand poetry? For the Large Language Model, this may not matter as long as its output is aligned with its objectives. But as social and planetary technologies with transformative effects, Large Language Models have already entered a territory where their outputs are intentionally or accidentally conflated with human-made art or literature. Poets and screenwriters often emphasize embodied and situated understandings of poetics. Yet artificial intelligence points somewhere else. How might Al’s understanding of language affect the future of writing?Â
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