Matt Wilven

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Matt Wilven is a novelist whose work explores the emotional and psychological limits of identity and reality. He is the author of The Blackbird Singularity (2016) and Farzaneh and the Moon (2019).

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The Blackbird Singularity

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Can AI understand poetry? An experiment with Sylvia Plath's Daddy

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I recently converted a very anti-AI poet to AI. He's one of my oldest friends - literally very old (73) but also a long standing buddy. Due to my evangelicalism, he had tried AI a few times but pretty much used it as he would use Google Search and decided it wasn't really for him. For a few years I've been talking to him about how I'm building AI into my processes a Read more of this blog post »
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Can AI understand poetry? An experiment with Sylvia Plath's Daddy

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I recently converted a very anti-AI poet to AI. He's one of my oldest friends - literally very old (73) but also a lon Read more of this blog post »
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
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The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
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Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
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The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton
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The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut
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The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton
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Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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“The novelty and excitement of my new ideas have passed but my need to keep writing the story is still great. I imagine it similar to how an archaeologist must feel when his tool first strikes an ancient set of bones. Exhilaration comes first, having found something rare, but that is short lived. The real work still needs to be done.”
Matt Wilven, The Blackbird Singularity

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Susan Cairney Farzaneh and the Moon

Hi Matt...all I can say is WOW! What a great book, just finished it last night, can't stop thinking about it and that you for the prefect ending. You're a genius!


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