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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSMAY 19, 2016, 1:58 P.M. E.D.T.

HANOVER, N.H. — Computers are pretty good at stocking shelves and operating cars, but are not so great at writing poetry.

Scientists in a Dartmouth College competition reached that conclusion after designing artificial intelligence algorithms that could produce sonnets. Judges compared the results with poems written by humans to see if they could tell the difference.

In every instance, the judges were able to find the sonnet produced by a computer program.

May 19, 2016 by John Cramer

Robots would be starving artists if they tried to write literature or poetry, although they may fare better as dance music DJ’s.
That’s the conclusion of the human judges in Dartmouth’s “Turing test” competition, which took place this week.

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By Katherine Noyes Follow
IDG News Service | May 19, 2016 4:05 PM PT

Robots can paint, but when it comes to writing, they shouldn't quit their day jobs. That's the combined conclusion from results of two contests announced this week.

On the upside, artificial intelligence created some pretty impressive works for RobotArt.org's first annual $100,000 competition, the results of which were announced Tuesday.

A computer program might be able to talk you into thinking it's human, but will it ever be Shakespeare?
05.20.2016 / By Erik Sherman

Algorithms can compute new symphonies and improvise jazz riffs. They can even aggregate a rap. But can real artistry be pre-programmed? Dartmouth professors Michael Casey and Dan Rockmore, founders of the Turing Tests in the Creative Arts, hope to find out. They’ve set up a competition to determine whether humans can distinguish between human and man-made art. Neither man doubts that beauty can be programmed, but neither has witnessed something truly unexpected come from an automaton — yet.

Algorithms help us to choose which films to watch, which music to stream and which literature to read. But what if algorithms went beyond their jobs as mediators of human culture and started to create culture themselves?

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Harold Cohen, artist and pioneer in the field of computer-generated art, died on April 27, 2016 at the age of 87. Cohen is the author of AARON, perhaps the longest-lived and certainly the most creative artificial intelligence program in daily use.

An algorithm might create a playlist you enjoy, but don’t mistake that for creativity.
By Will Knight on September 22, 2015

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There are robot reporters and robot chefs, but for the most part, the creative world has been free from the rise of the robots. One definition of art is “something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings.” Can something that does not feel create art?
Dartmouth College wants to find out.

http://qz.com/440666/will-computers-be-our-next-famous-writers-and-djs/

Dartmouth’s Neukom Institute for Computational Science is launching AI contests to see if a robot can write a novel, a poem, or dance music.
Robots can do any number of tasks and are getting increasingly human-like. But can even the best among them write a poem?
http://fortune.com/2015/06/29/can-a-robot-write-a-poem/