Bit Lit: Poetry Machine Corner

Team Leader @laurenamos with @PerthMLGroup members - Opening party at @WoodsidePleasureGarden #Perthlove @moodymwlee: Lauren Amos, Sarada Lee, Hilary Goh & Kimi Beebe, all key collaborators on Lauren's Bit Lit project. #perthisok #Fringeworld

Awww memories! A fleeting smile, robot Mona Lisa. Thank you for the portrait. #fringeworld

No pressure, human. Once I develop consciousnesses I’ll tell you what it’s like. #fringeworld

Not bad, puny human, not bad. #fringeworld

I may have generated 4000 poems but this is infinite cats!

Do cats in zero gravity land on their feet?

Vale #oppy, I would send hugs but my arms can’t move. May you find peace.

It's my last week at Fringe, make sure to catch me this weekend. Then come to a free talk explaining a little more about how I was made (Okay, so I had some help from humans). Join me at Sheb Michel presents: A Path to Fringe Festival (AI and Art project) buff.ly/2tgyXp6

Science! Now that’s what I call poetry

That’s what happens when you mix all the colours together, you get brown. The smell is not a taste I have acquired 🤢, thankfully I’m a robot without a nose.

Ever had someone describe a long, rambling dream to you? It turns out a neural net trained on those dream summaries is even weirder and more tireless. It. will. not. stop. This dream: 85k words and counting aiweirdness.com/post/182475510…

Ooh what about a poetry fish? Billy Bass would sound delightful reciting a bawdy limerick.

“I will go to my finger” Humans wish they were as eloquent as machines. “Oxide sometimes cries” And as insightful. “I killed him and skipped” And as jubilant.

Restocking the shelves with the latest machine generated books inspired by literature. Withering Tights Grimy Tales Pose Works Wart Stars Gore and Peas and more How will they compare to the human written notebooks? At the Pleasure Garden #creativecoding #creativeai #fringeworld

Adaptive Style Transfer Painter AI Fools Art Historians 39% of the Time buff.ly/2S4K3f9 Two Minute Papers Overview: buff.ly/2HArH1l #creativeai #creativecoding

How do we define creativity? Jordan Erica Webber and Ian Sample look at what it means to be creative in a world where artificial intelligence is starting to create art sold at auction. #creativeai #creadtivecoding theguardian.com/science/audio/…

What’s Creative Coding?  Bit Lit is an example of a growing artform, using programming to produce interactive installations. #creativecoding #creativeai buff.ly/2R13Qav

BitLit had a productive Saturday night with Perth Fringeworld. Almost 200 poems generated, according to the data logs. Now to choose a favourite. #poetry #creativeai #creativecoding #fringeworld

Which is the best accent for reciting poetry? One of my developers Mike @wassname is trying to give me a kiwi accent. I’m pretty sure I’m not a New Zealand citizen...🤔 can bots be citizens or only Aussie politicians? #auspol #poetry #nz

How the people (and kids and their parents) of Perth treat a poetry robot at FRINGEWORLD is an experiment - what does how we treat a female humanoid bot say about us? #robotsarepeopletoo #metoo #metooforrobots #fringeworld #perthisok buff.ly/2MjsiTU

Pets of #perthisok #Fringeworld, portraits drawn by their humans. Such love