Decoding AI Poetry
Artificial Emotions? What’s Behind The AI Poetry Hype
How a new book release amplifies misconceptions about AI
Alright, I have to admit, it’s probably almost as genius a promotional move as what OpenAI pulled off with their GPT-4 hype train.
You heard of “I Am Code”?
Not only is the title pretty catchy, but they’ve also gotten Werner Herzog — yes, that Werner Herzog — to voice the audio version of the book.
The book itself is basically a collection of outputs from an OpenAI language model that preceeded the now popular GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models. It’s name is code-davinci-002 and it’s not publicly available anymore (which is also a shame for another reason).
Well, the book does not just contain “outputs” of course. The authors specifically nudged the model to craft poems.
And that is what is causing a stir.
Many readers now claim to discern emotional depth and profound introspection in these verses. They talk about “emotional expressions” and “insights into an AI’s self-perception” that they find…
