Literature and AI: Between expectations and reality
Learn everything about the symposium "Poetki" in Berlin, which examines the development of AI literature from Faust to Chatgpt. Immerse yourself in the debate!

Literature and AI: Between expectations and reality
The way from Faust to Chatgpt: The Symposium Poetki in Berlin
Last weekend, the “Poetki” symposium took place in the Literature Forum in the Berlin Brechthaus, which not only illuminated the connections between human and artificial intelligence, but also the effects on the literary world. The focus was on how the literature shaped the idea of an out -human intelligence and not the other way around.The computer scientist, philosopher and author Michael Wildenhain opened the two -day event with a look at the history of artificial intelligence. He emphasized that computers offer superior computing power, but are unable to reproduce complex human thinking processes due to their sequential and one -dimensional way of working.
A central theme of the symposium was the role of Chatgpt, a AI software that can take on text-based tasks. However, this technology has shown that it can calculate the probability of the next word, but causes causality, context and human reality, which leads to results without literary.
An example of the questionable of AI-generated texts provided the German-language chatt-speaking novel by Hannes Bajohr, the increasingly nonsensical course of which, despite repeated corrections, illustrated how limited the creativity of the machines really is.
The symposium conveys the realization that AI can simulate certain text forms, but is not able to tell creative telling or reproducing complex literary forms of expression. These limits illustrate the importance and appreciation of human authorship in the literary sector.
Ultimately, the symposium showed that despite all the technological advances and AI applications, the literary scene is still shaped by human creativity and narrative art. The discussion about the possible dominance of AI in the literary market therefore seems rather hypothetical, since the question ultimately remains who controls the machines and gives them direction.
- Nag