Artificial Mind: Poetry by an AI

We asked an artificial intelligence (AI) system called GPT-Neo to write poetry on various subjects. And it did -- thousands of poems. Most were nonsense, but hidden among the nonsense were some gems.

This book is a collection of our favorite poems written by an artificial intelligence, curated and gently edited by a human. Some are beautiful, some are funny, a few are disturbing, and some are accidentally profound.

Because the AI was trained by digesting millions of texts from the internet, the words it generates are adapted from the thoughts, hopes, and fears of real people.

The AI has no conscious understanding of what it writes. But when you read these poems, you may hear the dream-like echoes of society's collective consciousness.