Can AI Write a Poem As Well As a Human Can?
AI is the technology behind many of today’s most popular apps, such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa. But now AI researchers have set their sights on a new challenge: using computers not just for information processing but also for creative work like music composition and even poetry. Can artificial intelligence really do these things well enough so that nobody can tell the difference between human-made poems and those written by machines? And if so, what should we make of this development?
The future of AI in creative fields like poetry writing and literature
In the past few years, AI has been used to complete tasks such as writing novels. This is a big step in Artificial Intelligence and AI will take on more complex fields like poetry.
In 2011, a short poem written by a computer algorithm got accepted for publication in Duke University’s student-run literary journal. The poem was written well enough to fool the journal’s editors, which did not know AI composed the literary piece. The AI’s creator, Zackary Scholl, used the algorithm to create several other poems that were also submitted to online poetry websites.
The acceptance of the poem in a long-standing literary journal is regarded as the first time a computer-generated poem passed the…
