"So the unexpected verses may make the reader wonder how to interpret them."
Poetry often seems to leave the reader trying to work out what the poet meant.
Microsoft’s chatbot Xiaoice does a lot more than other bots. She has presented the weather on live TV and now even composed a book of poems. Xiaoice has written 12 million of poems in fact. In a paper on arXiv, researchers from Microsoft, National Taiwan University, and the University of Montreal explained that all text …
Depends on the poet and the genre. In this case it's not classical but more "modern". According to some sites like the one below, there's something like 50-100 types of poetry.
http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/list-of-50-poetic-forms-for-poets (Google "poetry types list" )for more lists and confusion.
Poetry often seems to leave the reader trying to work out what the poet meant.
You're welcome to do that, but that is very likely not how human communication actually works in general (it's the Intentional Fallacy; see the later Wittgenstein, Davidson, Rorty, etc for more satisfactory explanations of language).
And many poets, when discussing their own work or poetry in general, have disclaimed the notion of presenting intent-puzzles for the reader, or trying to convey some specific set of ideas intact. Take Auden, for example: "There are many definitions of what art is, but what I am convinced art is not
is self-expression. If I have an experience, it is not important because it is mine. It is important because it's worth writing about for other people,worth sharing with other people." Shared experiences do not have the same meaning for all participants.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Leave us not forget J. Gordon Coogler.
(And special mention to John Lillison, unfortunately disqualified due to ontological deficiency. Oh, pointy birds.)
well... (joke icon aside)
I would say the time spent by language teachers to force upon you their version of a poem's interpretation is a waste of time.
Question for the teacher: did you write it? No? Then Why do you think you know what the poet meant?
(yes, I have a bit of a trauma there - no, I don't want counseling, reading some Benn or Gernhardt[1] and having a few drinks is therapy enough)
[1] http://www.robertgernhardt.de/tod/ -- caveat: the translations that I looked at are... of dubious quality.
"I would say the time spent by language teachers to force upon you their version of a poem's interpretation is a waste of time."
Aah yes, good old English lit' lesson one: When they ask for your opinion of a particular poem, "It's a load of shit!" is not the answer they are looking for, especially if it was written by characters with weird names like "Shakespeare", "Doone", "Browning" etc.
We get away with assigning human attributes to lifeless, soul-less machines.
Could somebody just tell me how the fuck is an AI "inspired"?
Inspiration is an exclusively human experience.
Artificial intelligence mashing words together is not inspired.
And dunno, am I the only one who thinks that these poems are complete bullshit?
And this (from the article):
“In my opinion, a big improvement could be made by endowing the system with a feeling (or a model of it), so that a poem becomes an expression of feelings rather than of words. However, it is a debatable question whether an AI system could have feeling or sentiment.”
Before you can "add" feeling (or model it, in fact), you must define it, then "quantize" it.
Until you're able to do that, this suggestion retains its absurdity.
"... am I the only one who thinks that these poems are complete bullshit?"
I'm sure you're not. However, the one shown in the article picture (click to magnify and read) seems quite good to me. Having previously lived and commuted by car in a large city (London) for some years, this has 'resonance' for me.
Note: I'm sure that this is one of the 'best' ones carefully chosen from much dross and nonsense. So, was it random luck or does that particular 'decision pathway' need to analysed and strenghtened?
I wonder in MS has copyrighted these verses? If they keep up the work output from the Bot it won't be long before anything that we write in the way of verse will have already been copyrighted by MS.
This could signify the end of Poetry as an art form. Killed by a Bot and Microsoft.
Oh tragic driver interface operation
dark soul of empty packet
parrot screams in empty shoebox
happy pain of despair
©ARM 2017 torture happy with your purchase
system reported an error : 358326921
beware spherical castle insect
art of all ages
cartoon spinecrusher laugh disintegrated
joy to mb/s concept conformity
"“It disgusted me with its slippery tone and rhythm. The sentences were aimless and superficial, lacking the inner logic for emotional expression,” said Yu Jian, a poet based in the Yunnan a province in southwestern China."
It's well known that 90% of everything is crap, but poetry and modern art seem to go out of their way to overachieve. I guarantee that if you showed a selection of poetry with a mix of human and computer generated, no-one would be able to tell the difference.