29 julho 2003

CULTURAS IN VITRO
Poetry website goes from bad to verse: David Rea of Greenwich, Connecticut, has written a program that allows a poem to evolve, to see if people with diverse tastes in poetry can work together to create attractive verse.
Rea's program starts off with 1000 "poems", each comprising four lines of five randomly chosen words. People visiting the [Darwinian Poetry] website choose between two randomly selected verses from the population. The bad ones are killed off and the fittest - those with the most positive votes - undergo further evolution.
Rat-brained robot does distant art: Meet the latest spaced out modern artist - a picture-drawing robot arm in Australia whose brain sits in a petri dish in the US.