Following the robot's victory over humans in Go, robots are now writing poetry. Xiaobing, a robot developed by a Microsoft team, has released a collection of original poems, and Xiaobing has recently opened a column called "Xiaobing's Poetry" in the Huaxi Metropolis Newspaper, releasing new poems. This is the first time that a robot has opened a column in a newspaper, and it has once again sparked concern and discussion among readers.
If the so-called poem-writing software on the popular network is still relatively low-level, then the robot's "attainment" in writing poems has already soared in the past two years. Last year, Tsinghua University's Speech and Language Experiment Center announced that their poem-writing robot "Weiwei" passed the "Turing Test" through the Academy of Social Sciences and other Tang poetry experts. The so-called "Turing test" refers to the ability to distinguish whether a robot is a human or a machine through its language and works in a non-face-to-face situation. In other words, it is no longer possible to tell which verses were written by a human and which were written by a robot just by looking at the work.
But, in my opinion, it's too early to say that robots have replaced poets. But of course, as it turns out, robots have been able to fool most humans with their poems, but robots don't understand the principles and meaning of writing poetry; they just pile on the words and phrases without realizing why they're writing them and what kind of emotions they're containing. In fact, robots do surpass human beings in terms of brain power, such as calculation and memory, but they are still unable to break through in two aspects, one is creation, and the other is emotion. Taking Xiaobing as an example, it writes poems by synthesizing the styles of 519 modern Chinese poets, and it can't create out of thin air by itself. And human beings write poems, must have felt a certain emotion, driven by this emotion to carry out creative labor.