My Child, the Algorithm: An Alternatively Intelligent Book of Love - Paperback
by Hannah Silva
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Soft SkullISBN-13:9781593767808ISBN-10:1593767803UPC:9781593767808Book Category:Family & Relationships, ComputersBook Subcategory:Parenting, Artificial Intelligence, LGBTQ+Book Topic:Motherhood, Natural Language ProcessingSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCNBYR9F00
"Hannah Silva's My Child, the Algorithm, is one of the best books I read this year. Merging the cozy familiarity of child-rearing with the mysterious tension of AI {...}, she has created a new genre of personal narrative, and a story whose grief, hope and curiosity takes on poetic, spiritual dimensions, even when exploring the most common chambers of the human heart." --Michelle Tea, author, Knocking Myself Up My Child, the Algorithm tells a story of finding joy after betrayal. Like a male seahorse, Hannah Silva carried a baby made from her partner's egg. But when she gave birth, her partner left, and Hannah found herself navigating life alone with her child. Hannah started playing with a precursor to ChatGPT--wondering what AI could tell us about love. To her surprise, she was moved by the results. The algorithm prompted Hannah to share her explorations of dating, sex, friendship, and life as a queer parent in London. With the help and disruption of two unreliable narrators, a toddler and an algorithm, Hannah deconstructs her story, unraveling everything she has been taught to want, and finds alternative ways of thinking, loving, and parenting today.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Soft SkullISBN-13:9781593767808ISBN-10:1593767803UPC:9781593767808Book Category:Family & Relationships, ComputersBook Subcategory:Parenting, Artificial Intelligence, LGBTQ+Book Topic:Motherhood, Natural Language ProcessingSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCNBYR9F00
HANNAH SILVA is a writer and performer working in sound poetry, radio and experimental non-fiction. An Artificially Intelligent Guide to Love (BBC Radio 4) starred Fiona Shaw and was the starting point for My Child, the Algorithm. Silva has authored seven other plays for BBC Radio 3 and 4, winning the Tinniswood Award and numerous placements in the BBC Audio Drama Awards. Her debut poetry collection Forms of Protest was Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes. Talk in a bit, a record of sound poetry and music was in the Wire's Top 25 albums of 2018. She lives in London with her child.
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