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Drafting poems: inverted potentialities

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MM '06: Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimedia

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Drafting Poems: Inverted Potentialities challenges preconceived notions of intelligence, creativity, and authorship. In Drafting Poems, an artificially intelligent poet reacts to user stimuli creating meaningful verse. As users sketch on the surface of a glass drafting-table, the system gathers statistics on how the users are drawing. These statistics inform a probabilistic text generation system that creates original poetry. While this work builds on a rich tradition of algorithmic poetry, its focus on the creation of meaning represents a fundamentally different expressive goal and hence Drafting Poems signifies a new movement, the AI Aesthetic.

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Drafting poems: inverted potentialities
1. Applied computing
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MM '06: Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimedia

October 2006

1072 pages

ISBN:1595934472

DOI:10.1145/1180639

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Universität Wien
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UNC

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