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

[Virginia Euwer Wolff]

And it's in kind of sort of tetrameter. No pentameter in the bunch, unless my lit major brain has forgotten how to count. And the "them the slaves" is of course impossible. Shakespeare, you're safe. 

Virginia 



> On 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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