Duke Tech Week: Poetry Fox Meets Poetry Camera

The Poetry Fox, aka Chris Vitiello, a local teacher and performer and Durham's current poet laureate, writes poems on demand with his signature flair on a vintage typewriter while dressed in an iconic fox suit. The Poetry Camera is a playful Co-Lab invention that uses generative AI to capture a moment through its lens and deliver it back as a freshly printed poem. It serves as a conversation starter about AI's role beyond utility, simultaneously sparking joy and wonder while also asking how much we want to entrust to machines to do the deeply human act of creating art. What happens when they meet? Poetry Fox or poetry faux? Witness the limits of AI and human capabilities in this real-time, one-of-a-kind experiment.