From Paul Dormer, Guildford, Surrey, UK
So a neural network writes poetry in a given style and on a given topic (15 July, p 14). The Polish author Stanisław Lem anticipated this in the story “Trurl's Electronic Bard”, in the 1965 collection The Cyberiad. Asked for a love poem in the language of higher mathematics, the machine begins, in Michael Kandel's English translation: “Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, / Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, / Their indices bedecked from one to n, / Commingled in an endless Markov chain!”
