PHARMAKO-AI by K Allado-McDowell
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PHARMAKO-AI by K Allado-McDowell
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Title Pharmako-AI
Author(s)/Editor(s) K Allado-McDowell
Publisher Ignota
Pages 160
Dimensions 130 x 197 mm
Format Softcover
Year 2020

During the first summer of the coronavirus pandemic, a diary entry by K Allado-McDowell initiates an experimental conversation with the AI language model GPT-3. Over the course of a fortnight, the exchange rapidly unfolds into a labyrinthine exploration of memory, language and cosmology.

The first book to be co-created with the emergent AI, Pharmako-AI is a hallucinatory journey into selfhood, ecology and intelligence via cyberpunk, ancestry and biosemiotics. Through a writing process akin to musical improvisation, Allado-McDowell and GPT-3 together offer a fractal poetics of AI and a glimpse into the future of literature.

Pharmako-AI reimagines cybernetics for a world facing multiple crises, with profound implications for how we see ourselves, nature and technology in the 21st century.

Found in: Ignota