Unsettling Something

Why do we mistake computer generated poems as the work of humans? From Wordsworth's "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" to Eavan Boland's "figure in which secret things confide," poetry is often defined by -- and extolled for -- its ability to convey human emotion. What, then, does it mean that we can not distinguish poems penned by humans from those generated by machine? Indeed, researchers Nils Köbis and Luca D.Mossink at the University of Amsterdam have found that humans cannot tell AI-generated poems from those written by amateur poets, or by well known professionals, provided a human selects the best poem from a set of machine-generated verses to compare. Have machines become as talented as our poets?