{"id":131348,"date":"2021-11-27T11:22:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T19:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/meet-the-robot-that-can-write-poetry-and-create-artworks"},"modified":"2021-11-27T11:22:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T19:22:43","slug":"meet-the-robot-that-can-write-poetry-and-create-artworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/meet-the-robot-that-can-write-poetry-and-create-artworks","title":{"rendered":"Meet the robot that can write poetry and create artworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-the-robot-that-can-write-poetry-and-create-artworks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When people think of artificial intelligence, the images that often come to mind are of the sinister robots that populate the worlds of \u201cThe Terminator,\u201d \u201ci, Robot,\u201d \u201cWestworld,\u201d and \u201cBlade Runner.\u201d For many years, fiction has told us that AI is often used for evil rather than for good.<\/p>\n<p>But what we may not usually associate with AI is art and poetry \u2014 yet that\u2019s exactly what Ai-Da, a highly realistic robot invented by Aidan Meller in Oxford, central England, spends her time creating. Ai-Da is the world\u2019s first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist, and on Friday she gave a public performance of poetry that she wrote using her algorithms in celebration of the great Italian poet Dante.<\/p>\n<p>The recital took place at the University of Oxford\u2019s renowned Ashmolean Museum as part of an exhibition marking the 700th anniversary of Dante\u2019s death. Ai-Da\u2019s poem was produced as a response to the poet\u2019s epic \u201cDivine Comedy\u201d \u2014 which Ai-Da consumed in its entirety, allowing her to then use her algorithms to take inspiration from Dante\u2019s speech patterns, and by using her own data bank of words, create her own work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people think of artificial intelligence, the images that often come to mind are of the sinister robots that populate the worlds of \u201cThe Terminator,\u201d \u201ci, Robot,\u201d \u201cWestworld,\u201d and \u201cBlade Runner.\u201d For many years, fiction has told us that AI is often used for evil rather than for good. But what we may not usually [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}