DATA
Sections of TECHNELEGY were written collaboratively by Sasha Stiles and her alter ego, an always-evolving AI poet (aka custom text generator) powered by deep learning language models including GPT-2 and GPT-3, fine-tuned by Stiles on her own poetry and extensive research materials. The foundational training data sets incorporated notes on, and excerpts from, the following works:
The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Noble
“All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” by Richard Brautigan
Believing in Bits, edited by Simone Natale & D.W. Pasulka
Close to the Machine by Ellen Ullman
“Conversations with Bina48” by Stephanie Dinkins
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
“The Cyborg Manifesto” by Donna Haraway
Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein
Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter
Hamlet’s Blackberry by William Powers
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
“The House of Dust” by Allison Knowles
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art by Virginia Heffernan
MLTalks — “Transhumanism: Searching for the Spirit in the Machine”
Novacene by James Lovelock
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity by Martin Rees
Out of Control by Kevin Kelly
The Physics of Immortality by Frank J. Tipler
“The Piecemeal Bard Is Deconstructed” by Christian Bök
The Policeman’s Beard Is Half-Constructed, by Racter
Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, by Nick Bostrom
Thus Spoke the Plant by Monica Gagliano
Tubes, A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum
Where Buddhism Meets Neuroscience: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the
Spiritual and Scientific Views of Our Minds by The Dalai Lama
“Why I Want to be Posthuman When I Grow Up” by Nick Bostrom
Virtually Human: The Promise and Peril of Digital Immortality by Martine Rothblatt
The work of Ani Liu
The work of Gwern Branwen
The work of Neri Oxman
The work of Octavia Butler
The work of the Terasem Movement Foundation
The work of Trevor Paglen