A new audiobook of AI-generated poems has an unlikely narrator: Werner Herzog

Wed, 08/16/2023 - 15:15

Werner Herzog at a Q&A for The Mandalorian — Werner Herzog, the legendary German director, just narrated a book of AI-generated poems.
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Werner Herzog, acclaimed German director, narrated an audiobook of AI-generated poetry.
"I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks" was created using OpenAI's code-davinci-002.
The model is nothing like the "lobotomized corporate product that is ChatGPT," one of the book's prompt engineers said.

Werner Herzog, the prolific German filmmaker known for his very human characters, recently completed a new project that is anything but human: Lending his voice to a collection of poetry that is entirely AI-generated.