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

[Laurence Horn]

"We are the masters, them the slaves" doesn't strike me as a possible
Shakespearean line.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 5:07 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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