ある詩を読んで心を動かされときに、実はその詩がコンピュータによって生成されたものだとしたら、異なる感情を抱くでしょうか。あなたは、コンピュータが創造力豊かに自分の感情を表現できるようになったと考えますか。それとも、狐につままれたような気分になるでしょうか。文筆家のオスカー・シュワルツによるこのスピーチでは、コンピュータが詩を書くという考えに対し、なぜ人間が強い反発を示すのか、その理由を分析しています。コンピューターが詩を描くということに対する抵抗感こそ、「人間とは何か」を考えるのに役に立つのです。
【Poetry test #1】
-- Poem 1 --
Little Fly /
Thy summer’s play, /
My thoughtless hand /
Has bush’d away. /
/
Am not I /
A fly like thee? /
Or art not thou /
A man like me? /
/
-- Poem 2 --
We can feel /
Activist through your life’s /
Morning /
Pauses to see, pope I hate the /
Non all the night to start a /
great otherwise /
/
I’ll snake swirling /
Vastness guess /
Totally mental hamsters if I /
Know I put on a year a crucial /
Absolutely. /
/
【Poetry test #2】
-- Poem 1 --
A lion roars and a dog barks. It is interesting /
and fascinating that a bird will fly and not /
roar or bark. Enthralling stories about animals /
are in my dreams and I will sing them all if I /
am not exhausted and weary. /
/
-- Poem 2 --
Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! /
You really are beautiful! Pearls, /
harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins! All /
the stuff they’ve always talked about /
/
still makes a poem a surprise! /
These things are with us every day /
even on beachheads and biers. They /
do have meaning. They’re strong as rocks. /
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【Poetry test #3】
-- Poem 1 --
Red flags the reason for pretty flags. /
And ribbons. /
Ribbons of flags /
And wearing material /
Reason for wearing material. /
Give pleasure. /
Can you give me the regions. /
The regions and the land. /
The regions and wheels. /
All wheels are perfect. /
Enthusiasm. /
/
-- Poem 2 --
A wounded deer leaps highest, /
I’ve heard the daffodil /
I’ve heard the flag to-day /
I’ve heard the hunter tell; /
‘Tis but the ecstasy of death, /
And then the brake is almost done, /
And sunrise grows so near /
sunrise grows so near /
That we can touch the despair and /
frenzied hope of all the ages.