Our literary journal

Excelsior!

Excelsior!

Excelsior!

Essays, Stories, and Poems about Technology

We are a group of three writers, with occasional guests, having an ongoing conversation about art and technology. We experiment with all forms of writing.

2023

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Who dusts the duster?
Who dusts the duster?

Finch and Bluebird consider the increasing stakes of anthropomorphization in the light of new technology.

Network Geometry
Network Geometry
Trust Fall
Trust Fall
Tree Language
Tree Language

Bluebird considers the tree-mushroom network as a connectivity metaphor.

Hollywood Strike
Hollywood Strike
My AI Could Create That
My AI Could Create That

Finch and Bluebird talk about AI passing the art version of the Turing Test

Existential Threat
Existential Threat

Bluebird and Finch explore the real and imagined harm of Large Language Models

Spot Back at NYPD
Spot Back at NYPD
Call to Pause
Call to Pause

Finch and Bluebird synthesize the arguments around the global efforts to pause AI.

Fuzzy Logic
LLM, AI, technology, language, statistics
Fuzzy Logic
LLM, AI, technology, language, statistics

Finch and Bluebird examine how Large Language Models interpolate and then extrapolate data

LLM, AI, technology, language, statistics
Burstiness & Perplexity
Burstiness & Perplexity

Bluebird and Finch write about the impact of LLMs on academic essays.