“…a collection of poetry meditating on art and technology and the lives we live with both. The poet is also an AI researcher and artist, so the book combines her own words and images with those produced using Artificial Intelligence (AI) for a startling and sensitive text. The title makes an obvious pun but also digs at the roots of poetry, alluding to elegies, as well as the Ancient Greek notion of tekne, for craft. Tekne applies to the arts as well as any kind of manufacturing dependent on material skill. Such word play and care is evident across every page."

– Charlotte Kent, The Brooklyn Rail

“Over the past year, Kalmyk American poet Sasha Stiles has become the pub-lic face of the burgeoning world of poetry NFTs, which circulate and monetize poems outside of poetry books and magazines. She cofounded theVERSEv-erse, a “poetry NFT gallery,” in 2021, has sold her own tokenized poems through platforms like Christie’s and SuperRare, and has spoken widely about the commercial and even aesthetic potential of NFTs for poetry. In-spired by the idea of “ars poetica” and by text-based visual art, the homepage of theVERSEverse boldly declares “poem = work of art.” The 2021 exhibition “Computational Poetics” at the Beall Center for Art and Technology included her alongside artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer; her solo show “B1NARY 0DES” is on view at Annka Kultys Gallery in London through March 18. Stiles coauthored her 2021 book Technelegy with GPT-2 and GPT-3—the forerunners of the now-ubiquitous ChatGPT—by training them on her own poetry and select other literary materials. “

– Artforum

"The future of human and machines, and the future of the virtual environ-ment is unravelling fast. Human and machine poetry, a language of shimmer-ing light and sound. Sasha's beautiful poetry evokes the experience of an in-timate social gathering, with views on life that make me feel I’m there. Who can pass on that? This is a great read."

– Ai-Da, The First Humanoid AI Robot Artist

"[A] brilliant book -- wildly imaginative, playful, smart -- the record of a poet grappling with our technological present, and future."

– Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams and Professor of the Practice of Humanities, MIT

"Technelegy is an immersive journey into today's entangled web of existence. A fascinating brainbath that leaves the mind inspired, awake and expanded."

– Ani Liu, Award-winning multidisciplinary artist

"The merger between ourselves and our intelligent creations is already under-way and will ultimately recreate the nature of everything we hold dear such as life, death, sex, relationships, work and prosperity. Sasha Stiles has fashioned this future scenario into a wonderful series of poems and images that bring the sensitivity of humanity to our transhumanist destiny."

– Ray Kurzweil, Inventory and pionerr of pattern-recognition technology and author of How To Create a Mind

“This book is a brilliant, unprecedented experiment that marries the glorious, and very human, voice of Sasha Stiles with poetry powered by her artificially intelligent alter ego. A revealing take on what makes humanity so extraordi-nary, and the beautiful yet terrifying power of technology.”

– Emily Chang, Host of "Bloomberg Technology" and author of Brotopia

“Through astonishing imagination and electric hybrid storytelling, Tech-nelegy parses the unnervingly proximal reality of trans- and posthumanism, along with the myriad ways in which the sacred and eternal are kneaded into the fabric of a time of surveillance capitalism, predictive data AI bards, and robot monks. ‘The world grows old / and looks so new,’ writes Stiles, and how fortunate we are to have these singular poems and artworks as guides, returning our present reality to us simultaneously newer, older, and stranger."

– Jenny Xie, Winner of the Walt Whitman Award for poetry

“Sasha Stiles' Technelegy is the most comprehensive expression I’ve seen of our anxiousness for and angst about human-extending technology, as well as its cultural advocacy known as transhumanism. With preternaturally accurate phraseology, and a deft braiding of poetry structures and graphic textuals, Stiles has uniquely managed to create a book of poetry that is as momentous in its reach as are the prospects of AI and digital humanity in theirs. This book will never get old; it is an instant techno-classic."

– Martine Rothblatt, Visionary technologist and medical ethicist

A daring work: adventerous, searching, playful... Technelegy preceded the current uproar over ChatGPT and transcends that debate."

– Diana Senechal

"Exemplary... Stiles shows us a new energy within the field of poetry which marks the beginning of a poetic movement within AI."

– Hans Ulrich Obrist

"When artificial intellects have emerged to become the newer Muses of our poetry, Stiles will be among the first of all poets to commune with the thoughts of these machines."

– Christian Bok