Halim Georges Madi
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Halim Georges Madi
@yalla_halim
👾 Computational poet, art writer



Yesterday I saw @yalla_halim’s “reinforcement.exe” live performance at @EFDevcon (please check out how beautiful the poems are!) Every 30 minutes, Halim and an AI wrote a poem on the same subject and people passing by could vote for their favorite. The setup sounds like a human vs. machine duel but in reality it felt more like a collaboration/duet; a process of interweaving creativity between a machine and a creative human being. The winning poem is then fed back into the AI creating what Halim calls a “shared aesthetic judgement” where both the poet and machine learn from audience feedback. A fascinating feedback loop and experiment




Went to @tiatplace yesterday night to see @yalla_halim’s versus.exe live performance. They pitted poets and machine “against” each other in a competition/collaboration/battle/duet. Poets and machine wrote a poem on the same subject and people voted for the one they liked the most. Top poems are fed back into the machine and poets see what humans audience votes for. The result? The machine gets to learn what humans like and human poets get to learn what humans like. A fascinating feedback look and experiment. Also… @imempowa rocks!














