Google-ai turns a photo and a single word into a personal poetic message

Google has made the Poemportrait experiment available. For users who submit a word and take a selfie, the artificial intelligence generates a poem. The photo is then overlaid with the computer-generated poem.

The Poemportraits Google algorithm creates a unique, non-rhyming poem from a chosen word and then superimposes it on the photo, completely in style. The algorithm is trained on a dataset of 25 million words written by poets in the nineteenth century. The chosen word is combined with a selection of these, creating countless options for poems. The input does not accept every word. After the poem has been published, there is the option to have it included in a ‘collective poem’.

According to Google, it works somewhat like predictive text in which the artificial intelligence does not copy or reuse existing texts, but uses its vocabulary to come up with its own texts. The result can be a ‘deep poem’ about a holiday snap, but it can also result in completely random sentences or sentences that are not quite right.