{"id":590,"date":"2016-04-11T08:59:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T12:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/?p=590"},"modified":"2016-04-11T08:59:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T12:59:05","slug":"silicon-valley-looking-for-poets-writers-says-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/2016\/04\/11\/silicon-valley-looking-for-poets-writers-says-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Looking for Poets & Writers, Says Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

The next wave of computer engineering is going to involve writers, especially poets and novelists, some observers of Silicon Valley to\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>. As the\u00a0Post’s<\/em> Elizabeth Dwoskin puts it:<\/p>\n

“Behind Apple\u2019s Siri, Amazon\u2019s Alexa and Microsoft\u2019s Cortana are not just software engineers. Increasingly, there are poets, comedians, fiction writers, and other artistic types charged with engineering the personalities for a fast-growing crop of artificial intelligence tools.”<\/p>\n

To read more, check out the full article:\u00a0https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-switch\/wp\/2016\/04\/07\/why-poets-are-flocking-to-silicon-valley\/?wpisrc=nl_az_most<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next wave of computer engineering is going to involve writers, especially poets and novelists, some observers of Silicon Valley to\u00a0The Washington Post. As the\u00a0Post’s Elizabeth Dwoskin puts it: “Behind Apple\u2019s Siri, Amazon\u2019s Alexa and Microsoft\u2019s Cortana are not just software engineers. 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