AI and Literature: the future of text and technology, with Professor Dennis Tenen

In Ep.8, we are joined by Professor Dennis Tenen, associate professor of comparative literature at Columbia University, to consider the relationship between text and technology. From the story-writing algorithms of the Ancient Greeks, to the power of bots today to debunk vaccine rumours, we explore how this relationship is becoming ever more ingrained in our lives. Could a bot win a Nobel Prize? Write your essays for you? And would you take your three favourite books to a desert island, or a bot that would endlessly write new books for you? We hope you enjoy!