Posted on 12/02/2022 4:34:58 PM PST by FarCenter
Can artificial intelligence write better poetry than humans?
The gap between human creativity and artificial intelligence seems to be narrowing. Previous studies have compared AI-generated versus human-written poems and whether people can distinguish between them.
Now, a study led by Yoshiyuki Ueda at Kyoto University Institute for the Future of Human and Society, has shown AI's potential in creating literary art such as haiku -- the shortest poetic form in the world -- rivaling that of humans without human help.
Ueda's team compared AI-generated haiku without human intervention, also known as human out of the loop, or HOTL, with a contrasting method known as human in the loop, or HITL.
The project involved 385 participants, each of whom evaluated 40 haiku poems -- 20 each of HITL and HOTL -- plus 40 composed entirely by professional haiku writers.
"It was interesting that the evaluators found it challenging to distinguish between the haiku penned by humans and those generated by AI," remarks Ueda.
From the results, HITL haiku received the most praise for their poetic qualities, whereas HOTL and human-only verses had similar scores.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
Fought CornPop no scare
Smell little girls lovely hair
Showers with Ashley
Out in the marsh reeds
a loon cries in pain
as if having remembered
something better forgotten.
Down in Savannah
a barge cries in vain
as if having remembered
potatoes from Kennebunk Maine.
Submitted.
If it’s discomfort you’re looking for, try a little Maya Angelou.
Her arms semaphore fat triangles, Pudgy hands bunched on layered hips Where bones idle under years of fatback And lima beans. Her jowls shiver in accusation Of crimes clichéd by Repetition. Her children, strangers To childhood's toys, play Best the games of darkened doorways, Rooftop tag, and know the slick feel of Other people's property.
Too fat to whore, Too mad to work, Searches her dreams for the Lucky sign and walks bare-handed Into a den of bureaucrats for Her portion. 'They don't give me welfare. I take it.'
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-1198
Just below Vogon poetry
All AI-generated prose will become the same, not creative and easily identified as AI sophomoric trash.
This is nothing more than programmers spewing BS and trying to make a buck with their inferior programming skills.
It’s no different than fake veggie burgers at Burger King pretending to be meat.
Machines do it all
Now “algorithmic haiku”
What a steaming load
I want that job.
Haiku is an inherently bad art form to test anything like this on, since the format tends toward a certain level of abstraction, and the human mind will read all sorts of meaning into abstraction that the creator didn’t necessarily intend.
But AI art in general can certainly have beauty, but since the basis of AI art is simply recapitulation of human art, and human art has beauty, I see no way to easily determine that the AI is in any way responsible for the beauty.
It would have been nice if they gave us a few examples.
The Zen philosopher Basho once said “a flute with no holes is not a flute. A donut with no hole is a Danish”.
I actually like that one. Such a talent, she is.
Vogon Prostetnic Jeltz
A woman whose clothing was strewed
by breezes which left her quite nude
Saw a man come along
and unless I am wrong
You expected this line to be lewd.
December morning.
The summer sailors shiver.
A nip in the air.
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