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Apparently, it would not be advisable to entrust the audio-reading of a poem to an A.I. …
unless you could program an A.I. to learn to discern from the words any sense of layered meanings of assurance or despair, departures and beginnings …
like so:
Pablo Neruda wrote this in 1952. If You Forget Me. Audio-reading by Madonna
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John Donne wrote this in 1590. The Good Morrow. audio-reading by Richard Burton.
Why can’t an A.I. read a poem like Richard Burton? Why?
Why can’t an A.I. read a poem the way a sensitized human who understands the context and temperament would …? Why?
Some brilliant computer engineer explain to me why you can’t teach an A.I. to understand the hope, or the grief, behind a poem.
Richard Burton reading The Good Morrow by John Donne, 1590
