Can computers be creative? The poems below were made by a computer—does that change your answer? What if I told you they wasn’t written by the computer itself, but taken from Yelp review by an algorithm that identified them as a haiku? What do you think now?
A few months ago, my partner (in life and often in creative projects) and I worked together to make @morcom.wrote, a romantic algorithm that identifies and creates poetry. We were motivated by that initial question of whether computers can be creative. We use computers all the time, as tools to create things; with the way AI is developing, the point at which they can create for us isn’t far away. So what does that mean for how we define creativity and art? Is it still a poem if it’s birthed from 1s and 0s and not from the mind of a poet?
A few months ago, my partner (in life and often in creative projects) and I worked together to make @morcom.wrote, a romantic algorithm that identifies and creates poetry. We were motivated by that initial question of whether computers can be creative. We use computers all the time, as tools to create things; with the way AI is developing, the point at which they can create for us isn’t far away. So what does that mean for how we define creativity and art? Is it still a poem if it’s birthed from 1s and 0s and not from the mind of a poet?
