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1 the Road by an Artificial Neural Network
1 the Road by an Artificial Neural Network
1 the Road by an Artificial Neural Network
1 the Road by an Artificial Neural Network
1 the Road by an Artificial Neural Network
1 the Road by an Artificial Neural Network
1 the Road by an Artificial Neural Network
1 the Road by an Artificial Neural Network
1 the Road by an Artificial Neural Network
1 the Road by an Artificial Neural Network
1 the Road by an Artificial Neural Network

1 the Road by an Artificial Neural Network

€24,00

1 the Road
by Ross Goodwin
Introduction by Kenric McDowell

Collection Art + Machines

146 pages
16,5 x 23,6 cm
Graphic design by Joanna Starck
Bilingual edition English and French
ISBN: 978-2-36568-027-1
First published in 2018
With the support of Artists and Machine Intelligence at Google Arts and Culture

 

📢 « Much like the American literary road-trip books that inspired this project, it’s about capturing the time and place, and right now we’re in a time where we’re pretty confused and amazed by AI, so it captures that wonder. »
– The Atlantic 

🗞️ « The experience of reading 1 The Road is not unlike being on a road trip. If the car is the pen, then, in a funny way, reading 1 The Road is almost like riding shotgun. » 
– BOMB Magazine

🗯️ « 1 The Road, […] vertige de l’automatisation annoncée d’une écriture. »
– Le Monde

📰 « Fascinant exemple de ce que l’imagination artificielle a de plus prometteur. »
– The Art Newspaper


🇬🇧 [About]
1 the Road is a book written using a car as a pen.
Ross Goodwin is not a poet. As a prominent Artificial Intelligence creator, he outfitted a Cadillac car with a surveillance camera, a GPS unit, a microphone and a clock, all connected to a portable AI writing machine that fed from these input data in real time.

Together, they traveled from New York to New Orleans, in an experimental automation of the American literary road trip. As they drove, a manuscript emerged line by line from the machine’s printer on long scrolls of receipt paper that filled the car’s rear seats over the course of their journey.

1 the Road offers the first real book written by an AI, which captures us from the first page, when the journey begins:

“It was seven minutes to ten o’clock in the morning, and it was the only good thing that had happened.”


Rooted in the traditions of American literature, gonzo journalism, and the latest research in artificial neural networks, 1 the Road imposes a new reflection on the place and authority of the author in a new era of machines.

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🇨🇵 [À propos] 
1 the Road est un livre écrit par une voiture.
Ross Goodwin n’est pas un poète. Créateur d’Intelligences Artificielles (IA), il a équipé une Cadillac d’une caméra de surveillance, d’un GPS, d’un microphone et d’une horloge connectés à une IA.

Ensemble, ils ont voyagé de NewYork à la Nouvelle- Orléans, dans une automatisation expérimentale du road trip littéraire américain. Pendant qu’ils conduisaient, un manuscrit est apparu ligne par ligne sur de longs rouleaux de papier qui remplissaient les sièges arrière de la voiture. 

1 the Road s’impose comme le premier véritable livre écrit par une IA, qui nous happe dès la première page, au moment où le voyage commence :

« It was seven minutes to ten o’clock in the morning, and it was the only good thing that had happened. »


Enraciné dans les traditions de la littérature américaine, dans le journalisme gonzo et dans les dernières recherches en Réseaux de Neurones Artificiels, 1 the Road ouvre une réflexion neuve sur la place et l’autorité de l’auteur à l’ère des machines.