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As others have mentioned, lack of an overall theme is an easy way to distinguish the human from machine poetry. Keep in mind, the machine poems are those hand
by daveguy 10y ago
As others have mentioned, lack of an overall theme is an easy way to distinguish the human from machine poetry.
Keep in mind, the machine poems are those hand selected by humans, twice filtered -- this publication and the original publication. That means these poems have a high degree of coherency that you wouldn't otherwise see.
People are reporting 6/6 ability to distinguish. If you had a person and an algorithm each generate two (or even one) poem without any filtration from a field of poems then it would be even more obvious which was machine and which was human.
- TheOtherHobbes 10y agoUnfortunately the problem reduces to qualia. Poems that have a theme evoke the experience of that theme. Likewise for generative music and art. If you have no model for experience (it doesn't have to be metaphysical - something mechanical would do) you can't include that element in the output. Except by accident - which is how Deep Dream works. The designers found a model that was good at mimicking a certain kind of experience - partly through luck, and partly through analogy. But Deep Dream is limited to that one kind of trippy experience. It's very good at it, but a competent human artist has a much wider range. [1] Real AI creativity needs a system that can mimic that much wider range - so you'll never be sure what kind of human experience you'll get from it. [1] Sometimes. A surprising proportion of professional artists repeat the same theme, style, or imagery over and over. But that's sometimes because of commercial pressure - when you find a formula that sells, experimenting with a formula that might not isn't always wise.