Poetry and Artificial Intelligence

Focused on the (simulated) robo-poetics in Martín Rangel in Soy una máquina y no puedo olvidar, this concluding chapter analyzes Rangel’s approaches to the theoretical and techno-practical postulates of the field of Artificial Intelligence. It inquires about the extent to which one can speak of Latin American digital poetic projects oriented toward the greater objectives of scientific and social cultures (especially in terms of our efforts to digitize/virtualize the world—and our humanity/consciousness). The chapter also makes necessary observations about several already-classic projects in the region, such as those by Gustavo Romano, Eugenio Tisselli, Belén Gache, Santiago Ortiz, the Spanish-US based Tina Escaja, as well as projects still in print by Silvia Veloso and Gustavo Barrera Calderón.