Posted on Jun 15, 2022
In 'Human Resources,' a poet finds her voice by working on artificial intelligence
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In 2016, poet Ryann Stevenson wasn't feeling very stimulated at her publishing job in New York. Then, her husband got a job in the Bay Area.
"As we were thinking about our move, someone shared with me [an] article I think that came out in The Washington Post, titled 'The next hot job in Silicon Valley is for poets', Stevenson says. "And I basically just emailed every startup that was listed or mentioned in that article and ended up talking with a CEO of a very small startup right away."
As Stevenson started designing voices for an artificial intelligence startup, she realized she was thinking about poetry every day.
In 2016, poet Ryann Stevenson wasn't feeling very stimulated at her publishing job in New York. Then, her husband got a job in the Bay Area.
"As we were thinking about our move, someone shared with me [an] article I think that came out in The Washington Post, titled 'The next hot job in Silicon Valley is for poets', Stevenson says. "And I basically just emailed every startup that was listed or mentioned in that article and ended up talking with a CEO of a very small startup right away."
As Stevenson started designing voices for an artificial intelligence startup, she realized she was thinking about poetry every day.
In 'Human Resources,' a poet finds her voice by working on artificial intelligence
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
...""In the first couple of jobs that I had, we were designing conversational interfaces for speakers, like smart speakers, and I was thinking a lot about voice and disembodied speakers calling to an unknown user," she says. "To me, this had a direct correlation to poetry, the speaker of a poem, and the readers."
In Human Resources, the speaker is often isolated, even as she's building technology that's supposed to help connect people. Much of this isolation, the poet conveys, came from being a woman in a male-dominated industry.
"Building voices that are designed to be predominantly female and thinking about that from my point of view, as usual as one of the only women in the room, was something that I was navigating."...
...""In the first couple of jobs that I had, we were designing conversational interfaces for speakers, like smart speakers, and I was thinking a lot about voice and disembodied speakers calling to an unknown user," she says. "To me, this had a direct correlation to poetry, the speaker of a poem, and the readers."
In Human Resources, the speaker is often isolated, even as she's building technology that's supposed to help connect people. Much of this isolation, the poet conveys, came from being a woman in a male-dominated industry.
"Building voices that are designed to be predominantly female and thinking about that from my point of view, as usual as one of the only women in the room, was something that I was navigating."...
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