Robert Neuwirth: 'I wanted it to be plausible as a machine thinking'
In this Winter series of podcasts we've heard from Linda Mannheim, Richard Smyth and Ariel Marken Jack. This time we welcome Robert Neuwirth and his short story The Disambiguation.
Neuwirth tells us how his story started from a couple of one-liners that were driving him crazy and wound up stuffed full of computer code.
We anthropomorphise the machines that surround us, he says, so we keep expecting "artificial intelligences to be human. But they're not. They're inhuman."
While he tries to keep his fiction separate from his career as a journalist, where he's been reporting on informal…
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