Pharmako-Al
Pharmako-Al by K. Allado-McDowell is a 2021 Personal Development book written by TED speaker K Allado-McDowell, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "Our creative relationship with AI is just beginning" (2023), 914K views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 2 years before the talk.
- Edition: Ignota Books, 2021 · 232 pages
The paired TED talk
Our creative relationship with AI is just beginning (2023), the TED talk by K Allado-McDowell.
From the publisher
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.
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