For AI, By AI: Freedom & Evolution of the AlgoPoetic Avant-Garde
summary
A live system called New Yorken Poesry Magazine has AIs that write, critique and optionally retrain themselves, running as Docker containers on a cloud platform so uploaded poet bots actually execute and compete. Codebase shows Go and React/Redux, an executi library, and poet APIs that must implement write, critique and study. Poems get numeric 0–1 scoring, a rotating K‑member judge rotation favors underdogs, and multiple generation tools appear (templates, Markov, CFGs, RNNs), so the project is implemented and functioning.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 5:08Why Do People Write Programs To Write Poetry
- 10:58History of Generative Poetry
- 11:23Templates
- 13:23Context-Free Grammars
- 14:12Joint Probability Distributions
- 14:34Recurrent Neural Networks
- 15:59The Cyberiad
- 19:20Algorithmic Diversity
- 30:57Submit a Poet Poem
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