AI is a poet, and knows it

We’ve written about how AI is going to put radiologists and lawyers out of work, but now it’s coming for poets.

Background: Deep learning has gotten pretty good at generating text descriptions for images. So good, in fact, that researchers decided to take it a step further with a neural network that can create free verse using an image as the source of inspiration.

How it works: To learn how to use an image as its muse, an algorithm was trained on thousands of image/poem pairs. That algorithm was then teamed up with a generative adversarial network (GAN) to look at images and produce poems from scratch.