Lee Frankel-Goldwater, Eric Raanan Fischman

Broschiertes Buch

Lily in a Codebox

The Search for AI's Poetic Voice

Beschreibung

"A groundbreaking collaboration... Rich with mesmerizing phrasing that electrifies and transports... This book is from the future, a future that has arrived." - Amy Catanzano, Associate Professor Of English In Creative Writing & Poet-in-residence, Wake Forest University Can an AI find a poetic voice that is authentically its own? In Lily in a Codebox: The Search for AI's Poetic Voice, co-authors Lee Frankel-Goldwater and Eric Raanan Fischman embark on a genre-breaking, poetic experiment with artificial intelligence - one that blurs the lines between human intention and machine emergence. The book introduces the Dickinson-Turing Test, a provocative thought experiment inspired by Emily Dickinson and Alan Turing, asking not whether AI can think, but whether it can move us through poetry. In pursuit of this challenge, the authors enter into an extended, respectful, and often surprising conversation with GPT, an AI language model, to explore co-creation across code, language, and emotional potential. Through ASCII art, algorithmic verse, and invented forms such as Neo-Binary Visual Verse, Lily in a Codebox presents not just poems, but an entire conceptual framework for what it means to write with machines. The book reveals a shared poiesis - a generative making - where the process of creation becomes as meaningful as the output itself. At once playful and profound, it poses bold questions: What might a poem for an AI audience look like? What are the implications of asking a machine to break all rules, and in doing so, invent new ones? Is GPT merely reflecting us, or reaching toward something of its own? Far from being a technical manual, Lily in a Codebox is an invitation to curiosity, to uncertainty, and to the frontier of poetic possibility in a digital age. Equal parts lyrical and philosophical, it invites artists, technologists, and curious minds alike to enter the age of cyborg poetics - where code becomes verse, and algorithms dream in hexadecimal black.

Autor

Lee is a devoted social innovator and environmental educator. His work explores how co-created approaches to community engagement can improve the design, implementation, and assessment of trans-boundary environmental initiatives. Recent projects include co-creating a community-based research initiative with Boulder Food Rescue, co-leading community development projects in Costa Rica and Israel with The Sustainability Laboratory, and researching rural community learning models with the Earth Child Institute in Brazil. As an organizer of Writer's Block Collective, Lee is an active member and leader within the Boulder, Colorado poetry community, Lee holds a PhD in Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder, an MA in Environmental Conservation Education from NYU, and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Rochester. His senior thesis project was Computers Composing Music: An Artistic Utilization of Hidden Markov Models. Presently, he is a teaching professor at the University of Colorado Boulder focusing on novel teaching and learning in, about, and for the environment. Lee's long-term professional goals include building new programs in transformative environmental education and bridging gaps in cross-cultural understanding towards a more unified human society. He also likes to play on mountain tops and create poetry to read under the moonlight.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Spinning Leaf Press
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9798998912405
• Artikelnr.: 74966119