Can Computers Write Poetry?









http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~esincoff/poetry/jpoetry.html

Poetry CreatOR 2

created by

Jeff Lewis and Erik Sincoff

Tale of Ada Lovelace

Slowly Ada Lovelace transfers upon the horny sea.

A hairy man moaned at the sight of Jan Valdez.

Ever radiantly, the throat took its toll...

Winky, the precise little carpenter smiled with a cherib grin

"I am dainty, I am dandy!" Crazy Horse argued as he tiptoed in blood

Last for the hushing first for the breaking--Now you must form

Hope for you is not a morning dove, rather a mourning prong

Cast me down from heaven for visualizing of nimbuses.

O melancholy world, you have stabbed me again.
 
 


 
 

http://sardon.cs.yale.edu/YMUG/dtj18/anomalies.html


 
 
 
The moon is a dying cloud that

dreams noisily. 

I sow several errors; I commit bitter

existence 

 controversies dangle in the silly

candlelight. try not to breathe angrily;

her wine splashes on my gas mask 
gnomes perform King Lear for

disturbed children. 

their cow is like a ton of rental cars

must a big box of drowsy chameleons

synchronize?

 daisies stagger to perfect brides,

distorting countless interlocking adults

cartoonishly 
A mother worries for a creepy guru 

the flamethrowers 

carcasses

the dance. 

the dying bird sings to me noiselessly.

these hands. 

they clamp solidly from my

conviction.

 each spring is an eloquent atrocity

not enough people remember the first

cruel summer
anomalies crawl among the

moonbeams

  

*


 
 

Ray Kurzweil



 
 

 

 
 
 

Ray Kurzweil was the principal developer of

the first

omni-font optical character recognition,

print-to-speech reading machine for the blind,

flat-bed scanner,

text-to-speech synthesizer,

music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments,

and the first commercially marketed large vocabulary speech recognition.
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

http://www.kurzweiltech.com
 
 
 


 
 



Kurzweil Cybernetic Poet

http://www.beachbrowser.com/Archives/Science-and-Health/June-99/the-age-of-intelligent-machines-part-4.htm

"We have reached the point where computers can successfully imitate human performance within narrowly focused areas of human expertise."

- Ray Kurzweil









ONE

is beauty itself

that they were waking there. All along the new world naked,

cold, familiar wind
 
 
 
 
 
 

Human                              Computer


 
 
 

TWO

What seas what shores what granite islands towards my timbers

And wood thrush calling through the fog

My daughter
 
 
 
 
 
 

Human                                  Computer
 


 

THREE

Men with picked voices chant the names

of cities in a huge gallery: promises

that pull through descending stairways

to a deep rumbling
 
 
 
 
 
 

Human                                  Computer


FOUR

I am lonely, lonely.

I slap an answer myself

she hides deep within her

yet plays --

Milkless
 
 
 
 

Human                           Computer


FIVE

Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;

The worlds revolve like ancient women

Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
 
 
 
 

Human                           Computer


SIX

is a steady burning

the road the battle's fury--

clouds and ash and waning

sending out

young people
 

Human                           Computer


SEVEN

"Interesting book?"

she sits

dancing by the electric typewriter,

bloodless revolution of meats

strings of use,

Politics, cautious, and the fact

she is the fact

she is calling them all--
Human                           Computer


EIGHT

All along the road the reddish

purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy

stuff of bushes and small trees

with dead, brown leaves under them

leafless vines
 
 

Human                           Computer