ShakespeAIre: Artificial Intelligence absorbs Bard’s sonnets to create original poetry | Science - Daily Express

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) experts have marked National Poetry Day by training a machine with Shakespeare's sonnets to craft a poem of its own worthy of the Bard himself, observes Tom Fish, Science Reporter at Daily Express.

AI news: A machine trained with Shakespeare’s sonnets has crafted a poem of its own
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Shakespeare’s sonnets are considered some of the literary genius' most popular works, with some - such as Sonnet 18’s “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day” - becoming the best-known works in English literature. And with such a wealth of source material at their disposal, scientists at Zyro set themselves a pioneering challenge to mark National Poetry Day - to teach artificial intelligence the art form using Shakespeare’s sonnets.

Armed with the AI behind Zyro’s copywriting tool, the team fed their machine more than 150 Shakespearean sonnets to test whether artificial intelligence is smart enough to craft a poem worthy of the Bard himself.

Following weeks of practice, the AI began to develop an understanding of sonnet structures...

 Express.co.uk can now exclusively reveal the finished result for the first time.

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Source: Daily Express