Introduction: Words from Wires: When AI Writes Poetry

A stove that cooks you breakfast all on its own, a robot lighting a cigar, mechanic mice cleaning the rugs, and bathtubs filling themselves. When Ray Bradbury published “There Will Come Soft Rains” in 1950, he might have been pessimistic about humanity’s future ability to prevent the world from going up in flames in the face of technological advancement and the looming threat of atomic war.