Machine Learning for Poets: The eMiLy App with Jen Looper

Can an AI generate believable poetry? Discover how an AI can simulate Emily's poetry, generating new poems before your eyes. Or simply select a happy or sad poem, as determined by an AI's natural language processing power, to allow yourself to feel better, or more grounded, by the power of Dickinson's words Can an AI generate believable poetry? Join Jen as she romps through venerable 19th century poetry to create the eMiLy app: a new way to experience the ethereal poetry of Emily Dickinson, rooted in the 1800s but renewed for 2019. In this talk, she'll guide you through the creation of the eMiLy app, a mobile app designed to influence the user's mood.