Artificial intelligence writes bad poems just like an angsty teen

Was that poem written by an angsty middle schooler or an artificially intelligent algorithm? A team of researchers from Microsoft and Kyoto University developed a poet AI good enough to fool online judges, according to a paper published Thursday on the preprint site arXiv. It's the latest step towards artificial intelligence that can create believable, human-passing language, and, man, it seems like a big one. In order to generate something as esoteric as a poem, the AI was fed thousands of images paired with human-written descriptions and poems. This taught the algorithm associations between images and text.