There's a harsh reality we need to face--a robotic, AI-driven Shakespeare is nowhere in sight. No robot will write verse that influences English the way Bard's did anytime soon. You won't find an AI spitting rhymes like Rakim or Nas, either. But if your standards aren't too high, there is some AI-constructed poetry you can read today. Take an AI that uses the recurrent neural network language model technique, feed it thousands of romantic novels to learn language from, give it a starting sentence and an ending sentence, instruct it to fill the gap between them, and you'll get something like this: This AI, designed by Google, Stanford University, and the University of Massachusetts, isn't supposed to be the world's first artificial poet--it's just a side effect. But if you keep in mind that the AI generated all of the sentences except the first and last on its own, it's impressive that they all make sense and have a common theme.