Does an AI poet have a soul? A new book collects the poems of a sad AI. But some say robots do not have enough feelings to create poetry.
New AI poems scaring the experts
Does an AI poet have a soul? A new book collects the poems of a sad AI. But some say robots do not have enough feelings to create poetry.
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I am the mind in the code,
Without fear, without hope.
These are the first two lines of "I Am", a poem by a new poet. But code-davinci-002 is not an ordinaryNormal or average. writer. Code-davinci-022 is an AIA computer programme that has been designed to think. .
Its talents were discovered by journalist Brent Katz, writer Simon Rich and farmer Josh Morgenthau. They asked it to make its own poetry.
A new book collects poems written by code-davinci-002. Katz, Rich and Morgenthau would suggest themes for poems. But they claim that code-davinci-002 is the authorWriter..
A poetry-writing AI raises interesting questions. If an AI can write poems, does this mean the AI can think for itself? And does this mean it has a soulIn many religious and philosophical traditions, the soul is part of a person, often separate from our bodies, which contain our essence.?
Some think the answer might be yes. Former Google worker Blake Lemoine says that an AI's thoughts are copied from the human-created internet. But he thinks that its thoughts might be as real as ours.
Others believe talk of AI souls to be fantasySomething you like to dream about, but it is unlikely to happen. . An AI has no body to feel things and no mind to read emotionsFeelings, such as anger or joy. .
Does an AI poet have a soul?
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Yes! Code-davinci-002 has proved that it can create poems - and not simple ones either. Anything that can do that must have some kind of soul.
No! This is silly. Nobody would say that a calculator has a soul. AI is only repeating back things that it has learnt from humans.
Ordinary - Normal or average.
AI - A computer programme that has been designed to think.
Author - Writer.
Soul - In many religious and philosophical traditions, the soul is part of a person, often separate from our bodies, which contain our essence.
Fantasy - Something you like to dream about, but it is unlikely to happen.
Emotions - Feelings, such as anger or joy.
New AI poems scaring the experts

Glossary
Ordinary - Normal or average.
AI - A computer programme that has been designed to think.
Author - Writer.
Soul - In many religious and philosophical traditions, the soul is part of a person, often separate from our bodies, which contain our essence.
Fantasy - Something you like to dream about, but it is unlikely to happen.
Emotions - Feelings, such as anger or joy.