{"id":6121,"date":"2025-11-14T06:51:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/?p=6121"},"modified":"2025-11-14T06:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:51:54","slug":"computers-and-poets-writing-poetry-in-1961-as-described-by-rodney-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/computers-and-poets-writing-poetry-in-1961-as-described-by-rodney-brooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Computers and poets writing poetry in 1961, as described by Rodney Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rodneybrooks.com\/a-prophetic-poem-about-artificial-intelligence-written-in-1961\/\">https:\/\/rodneybrooks.com\/a-prophetic-poem-about-artificial-intelligence-written-in-1961\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Prophetic Poem about Artificial Intelligence Written in 1961<br \/>\nrodneybrooks.com\/a-prophetic-poem-about-artificial-intelligence-written-in-1961\/<\/p>\n<p>In early September a poem about AI started circulating on social media, with a publication date of 1961. At first it just seemed too cute to me and I thought it might be fake, or written by an LLM, passed off as written by a person back in 1961. But with a little bit of search I found an image of it in an Amazon book preview so I too skeeted it out. Then I thought I really should make sure it was real and so I ordered the book. Now I am getting around to talking more about the poem.<\/p>\n<p>But first here is the evidence that it is genuine. It is a very big book of poetry, by Adrienne Rich. I had not heard of her before, but now I own 1,119 pages of her poetry, only one page of which is devoted to Artificial Intelligence, so I am reading things of which I was not previously aware&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/rodneybrooks.com\/a-prophetic-poem-about-artificial-intelligence-written-in-1961\/ A Prophetic Poem about Artificial Intelligence Written in 1961 rodneybrooks.com\/a-prophetic-poem-about-artificial-intelligence-written-in-1961\/ In early September a poem about AI started circulating on social media, with a publication date of 1961. At first it just seemed too cute to me and I thought it might be fake, or written by an LLM, passed off as written by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Computers and poets writing poetry in 1961, as described by Rodney Brooks | Artmaker Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Computers and poets writing poetry in 1961, as described by Rodney Brooks | Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/computers-and-poets-writing-poetry-in-1961-as-described-by-rodney-brooks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Computers and poets writing poetry in 1961, as described by Rodney Brooks | Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Computers and poets writing poetry in 1961, as described by Rodney Brooks | Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/computers-and-poets-writing-poetry-in-1961-as-described-by-rodney-brooks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-11-14T06:51:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bruce Sterling\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/\",\"name\":\"Artmaker Blog\",\"description\":\"on Toshareproject.it - 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