Jun 25, 2018
Today, it’s scifi writer, social observer and dedicated AI enthusiast Robin Sloan. Robin’s path into AI has been fascinating, starting with his neighborhood library in the Detroit suburbs, weaving through the early days of Macs and, most recently, Robin has been intuiting and bootstrapping his way into some fascinating co-writing experiments with the machine. We find inspiration in the humility and daring he brings to his writing and the collaborative process. Robin has been talking about how, with his machine learning co-writing experiments, “the goal is not to make writing easier, but to make it harder.” Robin is funny, welcoming and he challenged us to think about new ways to look at what’s possible when the machine delivers lovely text like, “the slow sweeping tug moved across the emerald harbor.” We loved our time with him, and we think you will, too.