Artificial intelligence: The giant cone that “gives birth” to poems at Expo Dubai 2020

It was launched a few days ago «The Poem Pavilion», the British pavilion at Expo Dubai 2020. The reason for the first pavilion in the United Kingdom that for the first time since the establishment of the International Exhibitions in 1851 is designed by a woman, artist and designer Es Devlin, known for her passion for poetry generating machines.

Inspired by one of Stephen Hawking’s latest projects – “Breakthrough Message” – the huge wooden conical structure invites visitors to contribute their words; Artificial Intelligence collects words and spells poems that illuminate its 20 meter high facade. The poems are created from the words offered by the visitors and which give birth to artificial intelligence will be listed in English and Arabic using the LEDs on the front, according to the APE-MPE.

“In the shape of a giant wooden musical instrument, the British pavilion collects words that each visitor has to offer,” Devlin told Dezeen. “It uses an advanced machine-learning algorithm to generate the cumulative collective poem that illuminates its 20-meter-diameter façade,” he said.

The structure has to draw attention to the growing importance of algorithms and the multiculturalism of the United Kingdom. “Algorithms are among us, they are a growing part of our culture, and their results are based on what they are trained on and who is training them,” he said. “The pavilion is at the same time an expression of the ideal of a multicultural Britain in which I grew up, mingled with our growing awareness of the role that algorithms play in shaping the future of our culture,” he said.

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