Machine learning is so hot right now...
When I learned about the analog phone systems from yesteryear my mind was blown. The AT&T phone network defined an era for humanity.
Same can be said about machine learning today. I built my first RNN in Tensorflow to identify Jackie Chan photographs as an art project. I quickly realized the power machine learning has to define our future.
I thought it would be interesting to craft a juxtaposition of these two era defining technologies. I had a rotary dial phone laying around, so I why not make it into a poet?
I trained a RNN on a 500,000 word data set of poetry*. The phone number dialed acts as a random seed into the poetry generator while the line is ringing. Then a text to speech module "picks up the phone" and read the resulting poem back to you.
*This training is an never ending process, and I am by no means an expert.
