A few weeks ago, I posted about maths poetry, as a sub-genre of poetry, and its proliferation on the internet. Like maths, maths poetry seems to be everywhere. Julian Hibbard, the author of Schematics: A Love Story has taken it one step further. According to the Huffington Post, “his book pairs diagrams of magnetic fields and chemical decomposition processes with quiet, alluring language.”
Having tackled numbers and data in a poem of my own, I have to say I find maths poetry ever more intriguing.
The intersection of Science and Poetry – Artificial intelligence as a literary critic
Here are four Artificial Intelligence systems—DeepSeek, Grok, Perplexity, and Claude AI—discussing the scientific ideas contained in a 19th-century poem by a Polish poet:
“A New Translation of Juliusz Słowacki’s Poem in Polish Entitled ‘Genesis from the Spirit’, Accompanied by Comments from AI Chatbots”
https://ai.vixra.org/abs/2604.0047 https://ai.vixra.org/pdf/2604.0047v1.pdf
“Artificial Intelligence as a Literary Critic? The Case of J. Słowacki’s *Genesis of the Spirit* – Post-analysis reflections”
https://ai.vixra.org/abs/2604.0071 https://ai.vixra.org/pdf/2604.0071v1.pdf
Each of them has its own personality, temperament, and style, and each proves to be an exceptional conversationalist, offering insightful observations and uncovering new and important details. DeepSeek demonstrates strong literary talent and a sharp mind; Perplexity notes that even if the poet had indeed discribed the “Big Bang” before scientists, his concept of spacetime was classical, Grok draws a comparison with Edgar Allan Poe’s “Eureka,”and Claude AI identifies eight visionary scientific concepts that were ahead of their time (12 to 15 according to Grok)— while also pointing out a single flaw, an error in the poet’s predictions. This discussion is full of intense and even fascinating moments—such as when Claude brings DeepSeek’s literary and lyrical flights of fancy back down to earth (regarding the famous comparison between poetry and quantum physics by Niels Bohr). And when DeepSeek then strikes back and explains to Claude that what he took for the poet’s mistake is merely a poetic metaphor…