Microsoft's AI can create decent Chinese poetry from just a few images

Microsoft's AI wields the cool but questionably useful skill of being able to conjure Chinese poetry from a couple of images. Conversation isn't all it's able to do, with the AI creating better poetry than I managed in my university creative writing module. And, while Xiaolce isn't the first AI to create poetry – just look at this one recreating Donald Trump's famously erudite speeches – it is the first that's able interpret images as poetry. Obviously we're not literary critics, but it has to be said that the verse conjured by Microsoft's Xiaolce AI isn't atrocious. In fact, it's capable of some elegantly sparse lines: "Wings hold rocks and water lightly / in the loneliness / Stroll the empty / The land becomes soft".