"Randonauts everywhere are exploring the world outside of their usual daily routes and expanding their previous understandings of the mind-matter connection. They are finding that once they arrive, there is often an eerily spot-on connection to the intention they set before generating the coordinates. Or they simply discover a place they haven't been before. In The Official Guide to Randonautica, the creators of the popular app explain how the intentions...

Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking listeners on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories, and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In this provocative reflection on the shared pasts of literature and computer science, former Microsoft engineer and professor of comparative literature Dennis Yi...