The capacity of artificial intelligence (AI) to create art is continually expanding. Recently, a team of AI researchers unveiled a new model inspired by the poetry of Jorge Luis Borges that automatically generates poetry based on pictures taken with an iPhone.
The Borges-Inspired AI model was developed by a group of researchers from National Taiwan University in Taipei. They trained their model on a dataset of images taken by an iPhone 7 and an accompanying corpus of Borges’ poetry. Using this data, the model was able to learn to generate original poetry in the style of the great Argentinian writer.
In a demonstration of the model’s capabilities, the researchers gave it a sample image of a evening landscape. The model was able to create a poem in the style of Borges that accurately captured the tone and mood of the image:
“The old trees in the night
and the moonlight dancing
on their creaking limbs
are a sign of eternity
that remind me of life’s palpitations.”
This shows that the model can faithfully capture the tone and atmosphere of the image, a remarkable feat of technology.
In addition to creating poetry from photographs, the model is also capable of transforming existing poetry into images. The researchers trained their model on over 100 pieces of Borges’ poetry and were able to generate images based on the text. For instance, a line of text from one of his poems, “The elephant sleeps in a garden of stars”, was transformed into a photorealistic image of a starscape with an elephant sleeping in the middle.
Overall, this new, Borges-Inspired AI model is a remarkable advance in the development of AI-generated art. This model has the potential to inspire new forms of creativity by automatically generating art based on photographs and transforming poetry into images. It is also a testament to the power of AI to create something beautiful and moving that could rival our most talented human artists.
