Scientifically Speaking: When machines become poets
Hindustan TimesI want to start off this science column in a slightly different way this week, with a poem. Researchers Brian Porter and Edouard Machery from the University of Pittsburgh used AI to mimic Plath, William Shakespeare, and Walt Whitman, and other poets to test if people could tell the difference between poems written by people and those written by AI trained to mimic them. People couldn’t reliably tell the difference between poetry created by human poets and those created by AI. But when the participants didn’t know the origin, AI poems often outscored their human counterparts, especially on qualities like rhythm and accessibility. While human poets, like Plath, pour personal struggles and life experiences into their art, AI doesn’t feel the weight of sorrow or joy, or anything at all.
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