Deep Roots in a Dry Place​
Deep Roots in a Dry Place presents plants of the Sonoran Desert of Arizona through poetry and images created in a dynamic human-AI conversation.
 
Join poet Sally Bennett Boyington on an intriguing journey through the desert accompanied by ChatGPT and image-generating AIs. Each of the illustrated pages that resulted from this curiosity-driven adventure contains a poem written by either the author or ChatGPT, set opposite each other for comparison. Photographs accompany the author’s poems, while AI-generated images in various styles are juxtaposed with the ChatGPT poems.
 
The fusion of technology and human creativity in these pages showcases how far AI has come in recent years, as well as revealing the nuances that continue to distinguish human expression from machine learning. Deep Roots in a Dry Place offers readers a fascinating holistic experience where art, poetry, and science intertwine.

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Sally Boyington made her poetry debut at the age of seven with a Halloween poem in the Wisconsin State Journal. Since then she has published other poems, nonfiction articles, book reviews, and historical and contemporary novels. A lifelong musician and reader, she approaches poetry as a way of weaving together the music and meaning of words. She lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, with her husband and four-footed friends.

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