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

[Jonathan Lighter]

'Tis sentiment, not source that reigns,
Tho' irony suffuse th'artificial boast!

JL

On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 6:00 PM Virginia Euwer Wolff <veuwerwolff at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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