by Richard Polt | May 21, 2025 | artificial intelligence
Radical environmentalist and anarchist Edward Abbey enjoys a cigar next to his Royal KMG in this photo shared with me by Chris Osmond. I note a painting of Don Quixote over the typewriter.Whatever you may think of Abbey’s ideas, he spent year after year typing...
by Richard Polt | Jan 12, 2025 | artificial intelligence
Oh, cool, look what I just found on Amazon. It seems that another typewriter collector has spent countless hours distilling his first-hand experience of writing machines into a helpful guide. I must add it to my library! But wait … a five-bank portable whose...
by Richard Polt | Oct 5, 2024 | artificial intelligence, Uncategorized
As my readers surely know, generative AI continues to make impressive/frightening strides. Chatbots pass the Turing test with flying colors. AI-generated images, music, and videos have eerie detail and depth, providing new aesthetic possibilities as well as easy tools...
by Richard Polt | Dec 28, 2023 | artificial intelligence
Farago’s essay is here.By the way, the Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for snarfing up its articles to train AI. Yes!
by Richard Polt | Oct 12, 2023 | artificial intelligence
Here’s the abstract of Chris’s talk:“To Feel the Meaning”: A Manual Typewriter Intervention Toward Authentic Written Language This workshop will be a facilitated encounter with mid-century manual typewriters as an exploration of the limits and...
