Bot or not? Try to tell a human poet from a computer (Credit: Screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET) How good are you at telling the difference between words written by a human and words written by a computer? Maybe after taking the Bot or Not test, youll better understand how research publishers Springer and IEEE managed to miss gibberish papers. Developed by two Ph.D. candidates at Australias RMIT Melbourne -- Benjamin Laird and Oscar Schwartz (whos writing a thesis on whether computers can write poetry) -- the Web site is described as a Turing test for poetry. Alan Turing developed the Turing test to determine whether intelligence is human or artificial. The site has two modes -- a set test presented to attendees at the Digital Writers Festival in Melbourne from February 13-24; and Free Mode, which allows you to assess poems for as long as you like. The Web site will present a poem, and you have to guess whether it was written by a human poet or a computer program, such as jGnoetry and Ray Kurzweils cybernetic poet. [Read more] March 10, 2014 at 11:06PM By Samy Mohab
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:35:12 +0000
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