Ok, so it's impossible not to cite here Stanislaw Lem's short story "Trurl's electronic bard", from the Cyberiad collection.
In the story, a poet AI has been produced, and it's put to the test by asking it to compose poems on extremely specific subjects and following almost impossible rules. For example:
"a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter "s"!
Here you can find the requests and the machine's results:
In the story, a poet AI has been produced, and it's put to the test by asking it to compose poems on extremely specific subjects and following almost impossible rules. For example:
"a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter "s"!
Here you can find the requests and the machine's results:
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lem/WonderfulPoems.html
I wonder how long till we'll be able to do it for real.