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    May 06, 2021 5 minutes

    SMART POEMS

    The Collective Message is an AI-generated poem in couplets beamed onto the facade of the UK Pavilion at Expo 2021 Dubai to celebrate World Poetry Day on 21 March. It was written by a computer poetry algorithm created by brand experience agency Avantgarde, who worked on it with The Poetry Society, the Poetry Archive and Scottish Poetry Library. It uses words from over 15,000 poems by more than 100 UK poets and worked towards creating an AI voice that was both modern and timeless.

    ‘It was fascinating to witness the way that the AI entity came to first understand the rudiments of poetry construction and then to generate nuanced and meaningful lines, which, by the end of the process were almost as sophisticated as those created by human poets,’ said Avantgarde’s creative producer

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