commentary – Jade Angeles Fitton https://jadeangelesfitton.com Still writing... Thu, 05 Aug 2021 08:41:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 180581570 If On A Winter’s Night A Computer .. https://jadeangelesfitton.com/2019/02/22/if-on-a-winters-night-a-computer/ Fri, 22 Feb 2019 12:48:14 +0000 http://jadeangelesfitton.com/?p=27067 I wrote a piece for The Millions about how, in 1979, Italo Calvino predicted the AI author in one of his best-loved novels, and what the reality of that prediction now means for us writers, poets, journalists and translators, Can a machine ever compete in metaphysical matters? What happens to an author’s copyright when a machine learning algorithm “learns” from an author’s work? And what happens when something learns from only “good” works.  Click here to read.

 

]]> 27067 Piece for the New Statesman https://jadeangelesfitton.com/2018/12/03/piece-for-the-new-statesman/ Mon, 03 Dec 2018 12:00:47 +0000 http://jadeangelesfitton.com/?p=27042 I spent an unfortunate amount of time on sex doll/bot forums, and somehow I didn’t lose my sense of humour entirely. Here’s the resulting piece I wrote for the New Statesman. CLICK HERE.

 

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