LED interactive wall can turn what you say into a "poetry"

Google has launched an interactive wall in the UK that can turn random words into poetry. The poems will then be displayed on an electronic billboard in north London.

This device, called Poetrics, consists of 17 LED panels and microphones on the panels. It uses Google's sound retrieval technology and speech platform to identify the words spoken by passers-by on the microphone, and then compiles these words into a newly created poem. It was placed in King's Cross station, near Google's new headquarters in the UK.

The project is a collaboration with Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, and was designed by several students including Laura Ventura Ricart, Yunqi Cai and Emily Kimura.

Ricart, a graduate student, said in an interview with foreign media: "We see that Poetrics provides people with a meaningful collective opportunity to play an absurd word game. It is like the "Exquisite Corpse" created by the Dadaists in their surrealist games."

Google seems to be quite satisfied with this project. Peter Barron, responsible for publicity and public affairs, said in an interview: "Thousands of people travel to and from our King's Cross station every day, which gave us inspiration to design a collective activity. We love this work brought by the students."

Speaking of which, there is a close relationship between Google and poetry. Several years ago, complaints about Google Translate became popular online in China. Netizens happily posted ancient poems translated by Google on the Internet, and laughed at the unrecognizable English results. Franz Och, the head of Google Translate at the time, specifically responded to this, stating that "it is not recommended that users use machines to translate poetry." Later, a group called "googlepoems" appeared on Reddit, and the members declared: "Google is a poet." The evidence is that when you type a word in the Google search bar, a bunch of search suggestions will pop up in the search bar, and sometimes they will form a poem with "long meaning."

The idea this time is really interesting and seems to be quite popular. However, as for the quality of the poems, it’s really hard to say.