2024/070: I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks — code-davinci-002, Katz/Morgenthau/Ri

2024/070: I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks — code-davinci-002, Brent Katz, Josh Morgenthau, Simon Rich

...the novelty of imitative writing wears off quickly. There was something missing from these AI poems: the poets. [p. 17]

Poetry 'written' by an AI, with preface and afterword by the three guys programming it. code-davinci-002 was designed to produce code, but the programmers tried it on poetry and some of the results were not bad. 'It seems far less trained and inhibited than its chatting cousins,' they remark. (Note 'it': at least once in the book they use the masculine pronoun for this AI.) They did not, they say, edit any of the poems.

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