What AI Thinks an Emily Dickinson Poem Looks Like

I used a GAN to illustrate ‘Because I could not stop for Death’

Clive Thompson
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9 min readMar 18, 2022

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How would an AI illustrate a famous poem?

In my Linkfest earlier this week, I wrote about the new crop of AI “generative” models, in which you provide a few words and see it translated it into an image.

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Clive Thompson
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I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net