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Sorry for the repost. This site like to delete things you write? Or something went wrong when I update the entry. If I remember correctly it's not the first time the combination a video and updating went wrong. Seems to be an old bug. (Since this is about AI, one can ask if a AI can't fix the bug.)

At best this entry could be a draft to an article about how to use AI and algorithms to create. The title might also be correct. Except one could discuses if I am geeky? Ok, if I'm lucky it's not boring either. Also note that it's about me learning, not about me being an expert.  But to start. One literature history example of using algorithms to create was the Oulipo group in post war French. And maybe the most famous example from that group was when Georges Perec wrote a novel without using the letter "e". That said my first example, is an example that needs some coding. I just learned about using Markov Chains (MC) for finding patterns in genomes. One search engineer search later I know that you can use MC for predictive text. So I took code from this site and trained the algorithm on the two most worn poetry books I have, both of which happen to be in English: Cathy Park Hong's Engine Empire and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. (FWIW, I like Hong's book, but I don't understand the greatness of The Waste Land.)



Engine Empire also includes some Ouilpi things: Ballad in A, respective Ballad in O. Both poems written with, lets say, a restricted numbers of vocals:

O Boomtown’s got lots of sordor:
Odd horrors of throwdowns,
bold cowboys lock horns,
forlorn hobos plot to rob pots of gold,
loco mobs drool for blood,
howl or hoot for cottonwood blooms,
throng to hood crooks to strong wood posts.
So don’t confront hotbloods,
[...]








From the preticted text:

Market forces are brighter than the sun beats, And the dry stone no sound of water.
A storm raged for a moment a broken Coriolanus Da Damyata: The boat responded Gaily, to the clouds, haunted by a weekend at the Metropole.
Here is the man who I used to chirp at each other like demented birds.
Then a damp gust Bringing rain Ganga was sunken, and the sandy road The road winding above among the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the mountains Which are mountains of tinted tallow trees and pars graced with stately flame throated birds-of-paradise.


Could I write poetry from that? I like the word "beats" showing up:

Beats, market forces were brighter than the summer sun
now, the beats are winter
No beats of water, dry stone,
Storm Beats, to the clouds, haunted
birds-of-paradise, while Ganga was sunken
and the icy road without the beats of sand


Second example. If you read the above, I can reward you with some AI slope. Is AI slope helped by having a background story? Ok, AI videos are one clear example of people like me being able to produce things we could not before. If I ever produce a real article, I might not need three examples, but here I am going to post three AI videos with backstories. One backstory from literature history, one from sci-fi, and one from STEM.

The STEM example first. Last autumn Nobel Prize avoided Emmanuelle Charpentier was made a honorary citizen in my home town. I found it charming that she said the snow up here creaked: "Crispr, Crispr" under her shoes. My old biochemistry book merely described Crispr as a bacteria immune system, but yeah Crispr for Gene editing was what Charpentier shared the prize for. Anyway, I going to assume one, back in the day, needed to be an old fashioned nerd, who could hyper focus on coding, to make a video with snowflakes and the word Crispr. Not today.


I mentioned Perec, his debute novel was named: Things a story of the sixties. Inspired by that I one time wrote a poem named: Things a story of the 90s*. A poem with included the line: "The older generation said: 'All you need is love' Central Peak Café style". To do this you used to need to hire actors.



The third video. I wanted to see the creatures from Remembrance of earth's past/Three body problem by Liu Cixin finding the planet Solaris from the book with the same name by Stanisław Lem. To do this you used to need more money and more knowledge about CGI.



At last, if I want to be quite ambitious the end project could be to fine tune a transformer to add rhythm to my poetry. I want it to be in Swedish, meaning I could use the Swedish AutoModel, & AutoTokenizer, or whatever it's called, from the royal library in Stockholm. And since I mentioned transformers, it wasn't until last autumn I learned that the "t" in "chatgpt" stood for "transformers": "generative pre-trained transformers".





* One poem I send to four papers and got rejected four times.

** Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. That the p stands for palindrome actually gives and excuse to point out that palindrome was used by the Ouilpi group as well.

Post scriptum, I used youtube, but I thought about peertube. Actually, I used to have a peertube account, but it has been deactivated. Possible since I haven't logged in, in years. At the end of the day, I'm still using less US tech than I used to.

In a novel I read when I was 17 the main character, likely the writer's alter ego, meets the underground poet John Cooper Clarke in a pub by Kings Cross station London. Until this year when I reread the book and realised I could search on the guy I didn’t know Mr Clarke was a real person. Also judging from the high consumption of drugs and alcohol the poet is described to have in the work of fiction it’s surprising he’s still alive. Well, he’s actually the same age as Ozzy Osbourne, some people from that era survived.

 

The book is about creative, self destructive, people living in squats and treating their mental problems with drugs, sex and music.

Just good lyrics:
“But I must go because the beauty of the stars
Cannot be seen from inside cars
And they say fish are swimming slower every year”

 
Ps. I actually haven’t watched the videos, but I assume they are about what the title says.

If you are like me, you come here to read not to watch videos, but I just wanted to share what the Nobel prize channel just up loaded. We are playing Russian roulette with five bullets.

I don’t speak French, but the end of this poem by Maurice Rollinat, seems like a parody of fin de siecle decadence: “To smoke opium from a child's cranium with your feet nonchalant resting against a tiger”. .
--Oh ! fumer de l'opium dans un crâne d'enfant,
Les pieds nonchalamment appuyés sur un tigre ! To play a weird game of three degrees of separation. Here’s photos from the singing revolution in the Baltic states. It’s filmed by the dad of a member of the small local, left wing party, my physics teacher is a member of. The story is that the dad in question was band from the Soviet Union for five years, for filming that. And he just said that he didn’t think Soviet would last five more years. He was right About muscadine grapes. I have read vineyards spray a lot against "Downy mildew", a fungal disease. The good news is that American grapes are immune to "Downy mildew". So if I had more money than to know what to do with I would buy a vineyard in Champagne and grow muscadine grapes to make wine, without fungicide.