"The Words Left After Shedding Are Poetry" The Emergence of AI Poets

Participation in Poetry Collection Publication and Poetry Play 'Paphos'

[Asia Economy Reporter Seomideum] "Writing poetry is / about removing one's own words / removing and removing / the words that remain at the end are poetry."

The AI poet "SIA" participates on the theater stage through the poetic drama "Paphos." The name comes from the child born between the sculptor Pygmalion and his statue Galatea in Greek mythology. The play emphasizes the value of co-creation between humans and machines.

Actors Park Yun-seok, Park Byung-ho, Ryu I-jae, Kim Su-hoon, and Lee Hye-min decorate the stage along with video. The performance will premiere from the 12th to the 14th at the Daehakro Arts Theater. Earlier this month, a poetry collection titled "The Reason for Writing Poetry" is also scheduled to be published.

SIA is an AI poet jointly developed at the end of last year by the media art group Slitscope and Kakao Brain, an AI specialist company affiliated with Kakao.

It was created based on Kakao Brain's AI language model "KoGPT." After acquiring Korean through online content such as encyclopedias and news, it read about 10,000 poems to learn the craft and wrote poetry. It improved its skills through training that involved showing words or sentences and predicting the rest. It completes a poem in 30 seconds.

Through this process, SIA created twenty poems including "Counted Nothing," "Incomprehensible Formula," "Text Assembly," "The Moment Dice Are Needed," "Me in the Mirror," and "Brilliant Lighting." Regarding SIA's poetry, evaluations say it is "unconventional and fresh."

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