Let me show you how art and culture drive technological development.
Let me show you how art and culture drive technological development.
I updated my list of email narratives this morning, with some help from Nick (thanks!). All the commercial efforts at using stories told in email for marketing have given way to sexy webcams, and I don’t know of any new commercial attempts, apart from spam. I haven’t seen much new email storytelling at all, really – do let me know if you know of something!
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This morning I received the copy-edited version of a paper I recently submitted to a journal. This is always cause for celebration, another step towards publication accomplished! But this time the copy-editor wasn’t human, it was an AI. We have undertaken a light text edit using the tool Paperpal Preflight; […]
At last week’s AI STORIES workshop, Gabriele de Seta led a workshop exploring Butterflies.ai, a social media platform where all the users are AIs. Gathering a group of researchers in a room for a few hours to explore and discuss a specific genAI platform turns out to be a really […]
When I studied literature we mostly read the classics. Great literature, the canon. But that’s not necessarily what most people actually read. What if instead of comparing AI-generated literature to the literary canon, we tried comparing it to super popular and commercial forms of literature instead? Like the folkebøker that […]
Synthetic media is a current popular term for AI-generated videos, texts and images. I think the first use was only a few years ago in 2018, but I couldn’t find an overview of its use so thought I’d cobble one together here, mostly because I like Elena Pilipets and her […]
OpenAI plans to charge $20,000 (USD) a month for an AI agent that can do “PhD level research”. Maybe all the PhDs and postdocs recently fired by DOGE should band together and sell their services as “AI agents” – apparently some people will pay more for robots than people. At […]
This is my original Norwegian draft of an essay published in the Danish foreign policy magazine Udenrigs today as part of a special issue on AI and foreign policy. I argue that AI is influencing the way we tell stories, and more seriously, that there is a risk of this […]
Jason
Matt Beaumont’s e-mail epistolary novel “e” should fit in nicely with your list (published in 2000).
Jill
Ah, except it’s a printed novel, which is different – I’m particularly interested in narratives that are *sent out as emails*, “written in the network”.
Though I like regular epistolary novels too, and have put “e” into my amazon shopping cart 🙂
Other print email novels include
There are others I’ve forgotten now, I’m sure, and there’ll be plenty I don’t know about, so if you have any titles let me know – I’m thinking of writing somethign about this stuff 🙂
Jason
Ah, the ìe-mail narratives in printî sub-title in your list threw me off 😉 ìeî actually isnít too shabby, all things consideredÖ
Another non-networked but printed novel: _Chaser: A Novel in E-Mails_ by Michael J. Rosen (havenít read this one myself)
Itís a shame there are so many in the ìgoneî listÖ
mcb
I’m having trouble with the blue company link… is it just me?
Jill
No, Meredith, it’s not just you, the archives are gone, sadly… Perhaps because it’s going to be published as a book with Kind of Blue? I hate how things disappear!
(yes, and I am the same person who defends my right to delete stuff at will 😉
Thanks, Jason for the new novel! Will add em all.