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This image is the result of 50 iterations of running these opening lines of Emily Dickinson's poem, "Hope is the thing with feathers", through a modified version of BigSleep, a script using OpenAI's CLIP and the generator from a BigGAN to generate images from just those first couple lines.

My work focuses on examining how trained models using natural language understanding interpret poetry -- if they can -- what poetry means in this new digital space, and for systems designed for accuracy, what does it mean for neural networks to consider poetry?

More info about the piece and the full poem at: https://rrbaker.com/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers

Emily Dickinson collection image

Selections of Emily Dickinson's poetry interpreted by text-to-image neural networks.

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This image is the result of 50 iterations of running these opening lines of Emily Dickinson's poem, "Hope is the thing with feathers", through a modified version of BigSleep, a script using OpenAI's CLIP and the generator from a BigGAN to generate images from just those first couple lines.

My work focuses on examining how trained models using natural language understanding interpret poetry -- if they can -- what poetry means in this new digital space, and for systems designed for accuracy, what does it mean for neural networks to consider poetry?

More info about the piece and the full poem at: https://rrbaker.com/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers

Emily Dickinson collection image

Selections of Emily Dickinson's poetry interpreted by text-to-image neural networks.

Contract Address0x495f...7b5e
Token ID
Token StandardERC-1155
ChainEthereum
MetadataCentralized
Creator Earnings
10%
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