Passing the Turing Test? AI Generated Poetry and Posthuman Creativity
Abstract
“Robots would be starving artists if they tried to write literature or poetry,” John Cramer wrote about a Turing test for poetry. In my paper I will examine forms and functions of AI-generated poetry and discuss some of the aesthetic, formal, theoretical, and philosophical implications of this cultural form. Can AI compete with human poets (and should they)? What makes the poetic genre specifically suited to experiments in artificial intelligence, and where does it reveal the weaknesses of its theoretical assumptions? What are the pleasures and politics of reading AI-generated poetry? What happens if the reader of such poetry is no longer human but a machine? In my essay I aim to look at AI-generated poetry in order to pose larger questions about human-machine interaction in the arts, about posthumanist creativity, and about the future of writing and reading in an increasingly computational environment.
Abstract
“Robots would be starving artists if they tried to write literature or poetry,” John Cramer wrote about a Turing test for poetry. In my paper I will examine forms and functions of AI-generated poetry and discuss some of the aesthetic, formal, theoretical, and philosophical implications of this cultural form. Can AI compete with human poets (and should they)? What makes the poetic genre specifically suited to experiments in artificial intelligence, and where does it reveal the weaknesses of its theoretical assumptions? What are the pleasures and politics of reading AI-generated poetry? What happens if the reader of such poetry is no longer human but a machine? In my essay I aim to look at AI-generated poetry in order to pose larger questions about human-machine interaction in the arts, about posthumanist creativity, and about the future of writing and reading in an increasingly computational environment.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Table of Contents V
- Acknowledgements VII
- Introduction: Affirmative and Critical Approaches to Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement 1
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Part 1: Challenging “Strong AI” from the Perspective of Human Agency
- The Artificiality of the Human Mind: A Reflection on Natural and Artificial Intelligence 17
- Merits and Limits of AI: Philosophical Reflections on the Difference between Instrumental Rationality and Praxis-Related Hermeneutical Reason 33
- Experience, Identity and Moral Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 51
- Outsourcing the Brain, Optimizing the Body: Retrotopian Projections of the Human Subject 79
- Life Care/Lebenssorge and the Fourth Industrial Revolution 101
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Part 2: Examining Merits and Limits of Applied AI
- AI’s Winograd Moment; or: How Should We Teach Machines Common Sense? Guidance from Cognitive Science 127
- Passing the Turing Test? AI Generated Poetry and Posthuman Creativity 151
- Why Neuroenhancement is a Philosophical Issue 167
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence in International Healthcare: An Index 181
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Part 3: Encounters with Artificial Beings in Film, Literature, and Theater
- Dark Ecology and Digital Images of Entropy: A Brief Survey of the History of Cinematic Morphing and the Computer Graphics of Artificial Intelligence 209
- Sentience, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Enhancement in US-American Fiction and Film: Thinking With and Without Consciousness 225
- “I, Robot”: Artificial Intelligence and Fears of the Posthuman 237
- AI on Stage: A Cross-Cultural Check-Up and the Case of Canada and John Mighton 261
- Artificial Intelligence from Science Fiction to Soul Machines: (Re‐)Configuring Empathy between Bodies, Knowledge, and Power 287
- List of contributors 309
- Index of Authors 315
- Index of Subjects 319
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Table of Contents V
- Acknowledgements VII
- Introduction: Affirmative and Critical Approaches to Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement 1
-
Part 1: Challenging “Strong AI” from the Perspective of Human Agency
- The Artificiality of the Human Mind: A Reflection on Natural and Artificial Intelligence 17
- Merits and Limits of AI: Philosophical Reflections on the Difference between Instrumental Rationality and Praxis-Related Hermeneutical Reason 33
- Experience, Identity and Moral Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 51
- Outsourcing the Brain, Optimizing the Body: Retrotopian Projections of the Human Subject 79
- Life Care/Lebenssorge and the Fourth Industrial Revolution 101
-
Part 2: Examining Merits and Limits of Applied AI
- AI’s Winograd Moment; or: How Should We Teach Machines Common Sense? Guidance from Cognitive Science 127
- Passing the Turing Test? AI Generated Poetry and Posthuman Creativity 151
- Why Neuroenhancement is a Philosophical Issue 167
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence in International Healthcare: An Index 181
-
Part 3: Encounters with Artificial Beings in Film, Literature, and Theater
- Dark Ecology and Digital Images of Entropy: A Brief Survey of the History of Cinematic Morphing and the Computer Graphics of Artificial Intelligence 209
- Sentience, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Enhancement in US-American Fiction and Film: Thinking With and Without Consciousness 225
- “I, Robot”: Artificial Intelligence and Fears of the Posthuman 237
- AI on Stage: A Cross-Cultural Check-Up and the Case of Canada and John Mighton 261
- Artificial Intelligence from Science Fiction to Soul Machines: (Re‐)Configuring Empathy between Bodies, Knowledge, and Power 287
- List of contributors 309
- Index of Authors 315
- Index of Subjects 319
