Blending the power of AI with the delicacy of poetry

AI models are now able to generate images from text, what if we furnish them with the words of great poets? A dreamy trip between poetry and AI.

image created by the author with DALL-E. inspired by “wish you were here” by Pink Floyd

Introduction

Poetry is nothing more than the juxtaposition of skillfully chosen words. A sequence of characters, yet capable of provoking emotion. An art that is difficult to explain and codify.
Listening to or reading a poem, we almost feel as if we can feel emotions, chills, or by closing our eyes we can see images. In fact, many of the most evocative poems are often filled with metaphors, and analogies and depict vivid and unusual images.

Words after all have often been accompanied by images, whether they are illustrations in a book or to reinforce the message in an advertisement. Often illustrators out of passion or business have been tasked with transforming the words written by others into images, trying to capture the message of the text while finding the best representation without betraying the author’s thought.

DALL-E, the wizard

OpenaAI this year unveiled DALL-E 2, a new generative language model that is capable to take sentences as inputs and create corresponding original images…