{"id":689,"date":"2021-11-25T10:02:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T08:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/?page_id=689"},"modified":"2021-11-25T12:49:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T10:49:14","slug":"two-poets-by-olli-kesseli","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/two-poets-by-olli-kesseli\/","title":{"rendered":"TWO POETS By Olli Kesseli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br>A poem made by an AI read by me and a poem made by me read by AI\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video \u2013 and the process behind it \u2013 explores the nature of co-creation of a person and an AI but also the nature of the uncanny valley. How does AI-generated art make us feel, and why, for most of us, the uncanny part are the visuals?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By just reading the texts without the video, what kind of feelings do the poems incite in you? Can &#8220;cold AI models&#8221; invoke feelings in us? Can or should we compare ourselves to AI? What is the role of humans in the creative process?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Two Poets - Picture me Posthuman\" width=\"920\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bPW677pA-6M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"764\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/3_Poem_1-764x1080.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/3_Poem_1-764x1080.jpg 764w, https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/3_Poem_1-362x512.jpg 362w, https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/3_Poem_1-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/3_Poem_1-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/3_Poem_1.jpg 1414w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"764\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/4_Poem_2-764x1080.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/4_Poem_2-764x1080.jpg 764w, https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/4_Poem_2-362x512.jpg 362w, https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/4_Poem_2-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/4_Poem_2-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/4_Poem_2.jpg 1414w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"764\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/6_text_to_speech-764x1080.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/6_text_to_speech-764x1080.jpg 764w, https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/6_text_to_speech-362x512.jpg 362w, https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/6_text_to_speech-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/6_text_to_speech-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/6_text_to_speech.jpg 1414w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tools used:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It all started by making a poem discussing two people based on a photograph. The poem was modified to examine the setting of poems made by humans (old) and AI (young).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With some usage of the &#8220;Speech Synthesis Markup Language&#8221;, Amazon polly was made to read the poem out loud<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Wav2Lip model was used to make the lip-synced video<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A GPT-3 model was used to generate poems with the prompt: &#8220;A rhyming poem inspired by Emily Dickinson talking about two poets of differing ages. This is the poem:&#8221; By this prompt the model made multiple poems from which one was chosen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was read to a camera by Olli<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem made by an AI read by me and a poem made by me read by AI\u2019s. 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