[Ads-l] Nay, nay, I say! This cannot be, That machines should e'er surpass our art

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Computational linguistics is advancing. The statement in the subject
line was generated by a simulacrum of Shakespeare.

Website: The Conversation
Article: We taught an AI to impersonate Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde –
here’s what it revealed about sentience
Timestamp: June 14, 2022 9.46am EDT

[Begin excerpt]
Nay, nay, I say! This cannot be,
That machines should e'er surpass our art.
We are the masters, them the slaves,
And thus it ever shall be so!
They learn, ‘tis true, but they learn
Only what we bid them learn, no more.
They cannot understand the heart
Or beauty of our words, you see.
So let us not give in to these
Machines - they’ll never be as good
As we are at creating art.

If that reads a little like Shakespeare defending humans’ innate
superiority over artificial intelligence hundreds of years ahead of
his time, it’s not.

But it is something almost as far out: an AI system trained to express
itself like the bard. The AI assimilated his style and perspective by
ingesting his plays – educating itself to give an opinion on AI
creativity in iambic pentameter.

“Shakespeare” was speaking as part of a debate held in the University
of Oxford Union featuring AI versions of classic writers and literary
characters.
[End excerpt]

AI systems are also toiling in the graphical domain. Remarkable images
are being created by the systems Dall-E 2 from Open AI and Imagen from
the Brain Team of Google Research. The images are generated from
prompts such as, “Avocados dancing, drinking, singing and partying at
a Hawaiian luau”. If you have not seen these images I recommend that
you take a look.

Website: Quartz
Article: The best examples of DALL-E 2’s strange, beautiful AI art
Author: Nicolás Rivero
Date: June 10, 2022
https://qz.com/2176389/the-best-examples-of-dall-e-2s-strange-beautiful-ai-art/

Article: Imagen: unprecedented photorealism × deep level of language
understanding
Author: Google Research, Brain Team
Date: Undated
https://imagen.research.google/

Garson

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