Google's Trafalgar Square lion uses AI to generate crowdsourced poem

In London's Trafalgar Square, four lions sit at the base of Nelson's Column. But starting today, there will be a fifth. Google Arts & Culture and designer Es Devlin have created a public sculpture for the London Design Festival. It's a lion that over the course of the festival will generate a collective poem by using input from the public and artificial intelligence. The neural network running the installation was trained on 25 million words of 19th century poetry and when passersby "feed" the lion a word via a Pixelbook, the lion will generate a line of original poetry.