About Singulars
Singulars is a series of live poetry performances where a human poet duels a machine. Each performance pits original human poems against AI-generated counterparts on shared themes, and the audience votes to decide the winner.
The project explores the boundary between human creativity and machine generation. Can a language model capture the nuance, emotion, and craft of a human poet? Can an audience tell the difference? Singulars puts these questions to the test in a live, participatory format.
Each performance uses a different AI model, trained or fine-tuned on poetry. The audience votes are collected and used to further train the machine for the next round—a form of artisanal RLHF (reinforcement learning from human feedback)—creating a feedback loop between human taste and machine output.
Singulars is created by Halim Madi.