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Adapted by Laurie Woolery, who directs, and the singer-songwriter Shaina Taub, who provides the music and lyrics, this easeful, intentional show bestows the pleasures typical of a Shakespeare comedy — adventure, disguise, multiple marriages, pentameter for days.
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Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
But all of this was before ChatGPT, which has no trouble with text generation, even with very difficult constraints like rhyming and iambic pentameter.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
Ask for a poem in Shakespearean iambic pentameter about your dog Spot, and ChatGPT will comply.
—Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
While Deep-speare’s language model was learning about word probabilities from Project Gutenberg’s collection of sonnets, a separate rhythm model was learning about iambic pentameter.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2020
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Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
But all of this was before ChatGPT, which has no trouble with text generation, even with very difficult constraints like rhyming and iambic pentameter.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
Ask for a poem in Shakespearean iambic pentameter about your dog Spot, and ChatGPT will comply.
—Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
While Deep-speare’s language model was learning about word probabilities from Project Gutenberg’s collection of sonnets, a separate rhythm model was learning about iambic pentameter.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2020
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“Pentameter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pentameter. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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