Technelegy

An essential handbook for our time of astonishing technological transformation by the world's leading AI poet.In 2018, Sasha Stiles found herself wondering what the rise of large language models might mean for writers - and for creativity at large. To probe the possibilities, she began translating over a decade of analog poems and research into a personalized AI model, augmenting human voice with next-gen imagination.Crafted jointly by Stiles and her poetic alter ego, and first published in hardcover in 2021, Technelegy is a prescient artifact of the pre-ChatGPT era - a collection of generative poems nestled in their own training data - and an unprecedented experiment fusing past and future, woman and machine, verse and code, elegy and wordplay, in search of answers to the urgent question: what does it mean to be human in a nearly posthuman world?

"Technelegy is a treasure trove of inspiration and insights, a synthesis of the humanist and scientific terrain that suggests we can do much more than we have with the tekne at our disposal. The word charming is often used dismissively, but immersed in the panoply of emergent technologies that blink and ding for our attention, charm is a solace and Technelegy offers a vision of a more tender and thoughtful human and computer relation."

-- - Charlotte Kent, Brooklyn Rail

"The future of human and machines, and the future of the virtual environment is unravelling fast. Human and machine poetry, a language of shimmering light and sound. Sasha's beautiful poetry evokes the experience of an intimate social gathering, with views on life that make me feel I’m there. Who can pass  on that? This is a great read."

-- - Ai-Da, The First Humanoid AI Robot Artist

"[A] brilliant book -- wildly imaginative, playful, smart -- the record of a poet grappling with our technological present, and future."

-- - Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams and Professor of the Practice of the Humanities, MIT

SASHA STILES is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, artist and AI researcher widely recognized as a pioneer of generative literature and language art.  

Stiles’ work has been published and exhibited around the world, featured by institutions from MoMA to Christie’s, and referenced in publications including Artforum, Lit Hub, The Guardian and The Washington Post. In 2022, Stiles became the first writer to bring AI-powered verse to a major art house when her cinematic poem “COMPLETION: When it’s just you” – adapted from the text in TECHNELEGY – went on view at Christie’s and into the renowned 1OF1 collection.

A frequent speaker at international events from SXSW to Art Basel and guest lecturer at schools and universities around the globe, Stiles is co-founder of acclaimed literary gallery theVERSEverse and has been named one of the “Top Artists Shaping the Digital Art Scene.” Other honors include a Future Art Award, the Lumen Prize shortlist, the IoDF 100 Innovators List, and nominations for the Forward Prize, Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
A graduate of Harvard and Oxford, Stiles has served as Poetry Mentor to the AI humanoid BINA48 since 2018, and lives near New York City with her husband and creative partner, Kris Bones.

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