E.L.I.'s purpose is to help us examine the relationship between the artist and technology. Can a robot effectively produce poetry, considering that poetry hinges upon human experience? If a robot simulates human creativity, does it undermine the role of the artist? Etc.
My poem from E.L.I.:
The google stretches by gradual cursors
singing optical
Chicago my kind of town
hurriedly tracing meticulous
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