Neural network poetry is so bad we think it's written by humans

Can a machine incapable of experiencing emotion write poetry that stirs the soul? A neural network trained on thousands of lines of poetry has tried its hand at penning its own rhymes that mimic certain forms of verse. The poetic bot is fully tunable, says Jack Hopkins, who developed the system while he was a researcher at the University of Cambridge. It can be programmed to write in a particular rhythm or pen poems on specific themes. Set the theme to "desolation", for example, and the angst-ridden AI comes up with the following snippet of verse: The AI can be endlessly tweaked to produce different flavours of poetry.