Computational creativity is blossoming in poetry – soon computers will be our co-workers University of Helsinki

Father has knocked about the road Holidays a game resemble When the uncle's granny gets an idea from play The trip cannot go wrong Sauna the granny is happy on the way Her dog Wille is happy when granny arrives at the sauna * This is a poem co-created a couple of years ago by a primary school pupil and a computer. It was part of a study where schoolchildren wrote poems together with the Poetry Machine, a computer program designed at the University of Helsinki. The study focused on the co-creativity of humans and computers, a new field of study examining the ways in which computers are able to produce something considered creative. "Such products can be fine arts, music as well as stories, poems or other linguistic creations," says computer scientist Anna Kantosalo. Kantosalo, one of the developers of the Poetry Machine, discussed the development of the system and related user experiences among primary school children in her doctoral dissertation examined in August.