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I was tricked by "A thousand pictures on the kitchen floor, Talked about a hundred years or more."
by andreaferretti 10y ago
I was tricked by "A thousand pictures on the kitchen floor,
Talked about a hundred years or more."
- gridspy 10y agoI got 6/6 I didn't even read that far. It was obvious by here: SONNET #2 The dirty rusty wooden dresser drawer. A couple million people wearing drawers, Or looking through a lonely oven door, Flowers covered under marble floors. This is exactly how a computer algorithm would conflate drawer with drawers. There is no obvious theme to this verse, no high level construct. Every human poem in this example has a high level theme, which is non-obvious to a computer. None of the computer ones do.
- chrisfosterelli 10y agoThat's how I got 6/6 as well. It's less about the actual words and more about if the poem was actually talking about anything coherent.
- mfoy_ 10y agoAll the computer poems were just rambling and rhyming and weren't really even trying to say anything. A lot of the time they phrased things VERY awkwardly too, to the point of being incomprehensible.
- elorant 10y agoSounds like rap music :)
- plaguuuuuu 10y agoAlso interesting to compare with less thematically structured work. Probably not the greatest example but what comes to my mind is some of The Mars Volta's lyrics; a lot of it is pretty abstract and stream-of-consciousness and it's hard to really pinpoint a narrative as such, compared to the example poems which were pretty straightforward "Last night I heard lepers flinch like birth defects its musk was fecal in origin as the words dribbled off of its chin it said I'm lost I'm lost Now I'm lost Dolls wreck the minced meat of pupils cast in oblong arms length the hooks have been picking their scabs where wolves hide in the company of men it said I'm lost I'm lost"
- Scriptor 10y agoYep, the human poems would often refer back to an idea or word mentioned before. The computer poems read like something from a good markov generator. Actually, you can kind of reverse engineer the algorithm behind Sonnet #2. It seems like they first pick a bunch of related words that rhyme (drawer, door, floors, apartment, wall) and then build up the line backwards. The problem is that even though the words are related, the actual lines don't form any single cohesive image.
- SilasX 10y ago>This is exactly how a computer algorithm would conflate drawer with drawers. Because human poets never do wordplay like that?
- gridspy 10y agoBecause when humans do, there is an obvious (sometimes less obvious, but present) reason to do so. There is no such link made in this example between the usages.
- SilasX 10y agoYou haven't read a lot of schoolkid poetry posted at public libraries, have you?
- neosat 10y agoI got this one wrong. I thought no way a computer would be so dumb to have drawer and then drawers in the next sentence and this was a trick question to get one to say machine. Guess I overestimated the algorithm !
- taneq 10y agoInability to differentiate homonyms is one of the current weaknesses of word embeddings, isn't it?