New research led by philosophers Brian Porter and Edward Machery shows that the latest AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is faring better in the rankings.
In a new review, some real works of great literary figures including “William Shakespeare”, “Lord Byron”, “Geoffrey Chaucer” and “TS Eliot” with imitations Compared to their styles created by ChatGPT.
According to 696 participants in the test of artificial intelligence and humans in writing poetry, the imitation of artificial intelligence was better than the prototype. Porter and Machery conclude that the capabilities of generative AI models have exceeded people’s expectations of AI. But they don’t say that AI is a viable replacement for human poets, and rightly so, because such a conclusion requires much more testing.
That the research participants did not recognize the AI’s lyrics is not too alarming. Porter and Machery decided to include a wide range of poetry types in the experiment, which meant choosing poets who belonged mostly to past ages. In such cases, modern readers are likely to have difficulty looking past the obvious signs of antiquity, outdated dictation, rigid formalism, and obscure cultural references.
But what about the issue of preference? The researchers asked participants to rate the poems on a range of qualitative dimensions. How was the imagery, rhythm, sound or beauty? How “inspiring”, “humorous”, “meaningful”, “stimulating”, “original”, “profound” and “funny” was it? AI beat out Shakespeare and other poets in almost every category.
Does this mean that human poets have been replaced? not really The research participants were generally at a low level of poetry experience. Lack of familiarity with any art severely limits our ability to make the most of it. All the AI needs to do is remove the more challenging elements, the ambiguity, the wordplay, the linguistic complexity to produce a version that is more palatable to those with little interest in the art.
In this experiment, participants complained more about human-written poems that they did not make sense. So for now, poets have little reason to worry.
Explanation: This research was conducted in English, and Persian poetry, especially verse poetry, has a very different structure, and artificial intelligence is still not fully capable of Persian language.
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