This AI 'poetry camera' shoots haikus instead of photos and thats way more interesting than megapixels

Date:
Mon, 06 May 2024 16:00:06 +0000

Description:
This Instax-like camera is like a reverse AI image generator image-to-text printing words instead of pictures

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A sweeping blue-light commands the view,

Erasing distant sunlit memories.

Tentative fingers tapping at keys,

Surrounded by mugs, piled papers and knotted charging cables.

A chaotic mind dwells here.

If the intriguing 'poetry camera' were in my hand now, thats the kind of end product it could reveal on its tiny scroll of paper, rather than a pixelated thermal-printed image of my messy desk in a pokey, dimly-lit home office.

It may well resemble a Fujifilm Instax instant camera , but the poetry camera utilizes AI instead to turn what it sees through the lens (a Raspberry Pi camera module) into a short poem, sonnet, or haiku. Its essentially a reverse AI image generator, image-to-text if you will, using AI to piece together words from a real-world moment in time.

Creators Kelin Carolyn Zhang and Ryan Mather describe the open-source passion project on the poetry cameras website as a new way to make memories away
from screens, notifs, and apps and it's the kind project to warm the heart.

Ryan Mather has shared videos of the poetry camera in action In Washington Square Park on Instagram through the account @flomerboy (see below), where members of the public have agreed to "have a poetry taken of them". That phrase was enough to reel me in.

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Like a cash register, poetry camera proceeds to print out a short, one-of-a-kind singular poem on a receipt-like piece of paper using its internal thermal printer, which is then shared with the group, much to their amusement.

Kelin and Ryan just wanted to "have fun with technology again", and have created the poetry camera using Raspberry Pi components, open source
software, OpenAI's GPT-4 and 3D printed the camera body, sharing instructions on how to build your own . For the clued-up, it's possible to modify the kind of poetic forms created.

My word skills hardly compare to those of the GPT-4 AI-powered poetry camera, which puts into practice the 'picture is worth a thousand words' adage or at least worth a short-form poem glittered with metaphors.

The makers share monthly updates through their newsletter and those that sign up are the first to know about limited-edition product drops, though there's no indication of what price the poetry camera will be. It's a novel project and a utilization of AI in a camera that I can get behind.

A novel project

The poetry camera

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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/cameras/photography/this-ai-poetry-camera-shoots-hai kus-instead-of-photos-and-thats-way-more-interesting-than-megapixels


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