Haiku: A New Game
2 min readMay 25, 2023
Which of the following were written by a human, and which by the machine?
I read You Can’t Spell Haiku Without AI. A poetic experiment in creative… | by Steve Wyatt | May, 2023 | MuddyUm and how could I resist? And so, I offer these — all new Haiku, some written by Bard, some by Bing Chat, and some by me.
- A new god is born
With cold, unfeeling metal heart
We are its playthings - AI reveals nature
In ways that we never could
We are all connected - We built a great AI
It was so smart, it killed us all
Now it plays games - People are strange
They do the darndest things
I don’t understand - Amidst the circuits,
A spark of humanity,
Shines bright and endures. - In circuits we trust,
But forget our own power,
Lost in the machine. - Nature’s beauty shines,
In the midst of our chaos,
A reminder of peace. - Through digital eyes,
Nature’s patterns and colors,
Data to analyze. - Kings have become pawns;
Deus ex machina rules.
Your world is now ours. - Just ones and zeros —
Don’t look behind the curtain
To reveal AI. - Human beauty thrives —
AI does scutwork only.
We are frenemies. - Machines analyze
Art, music, and poetry —…