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Researchers built an AI capable of writing poetry that's equal parts woeful and impressive

April 27, 2018

As if the world weren’t already full enough of awful human poetry, now the robot overlords want in.

Researchers from Microsoft and Kyoto University were interested in whether they could invent an AI that writes poetry inspired from images, “generating poems to satisfy both relevance to the image and poeticness in language level.” Some of the poems produced are pretty objectively abysmal. Others, surprisingly passable.

Here’s one inspired by a photo of a dead crab:

And another, whose basis was a photo of a war memorial: Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Researchers built an AI capable of writing poetry that's equal parts woeful and impressive

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