Google AI or Dada?: A Poetry Quiz by Tracy O'NeillJune 3, 2016

Recently, Google announced that its artificial intelligence was composing poetry after reading thousands of romance novels. Some found it nonsensical. Others saw a continuity between Google's verse and chance operations poetry, a technique traced back to the Dada Movement. Can you tell the difference between the poetry of machines and humans? Take our quiz to see if you can identify whether the following poetry excerpts come from Google AI or Dada poets.

Google or Dada

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I think this quiz has coding

Submitted by Heather (not verified) on June 4, 2016 - 10:55am

I think this quiz has coding errors in a few of the questions. E.g. for the one where the answer is "These lines occur in Tristan Tzara's "Chanson Dada," I definitely clicked the box for Dada, but it said "Incorrect." Same for the one where the answer is "These lines occur in "Staircase" by Francis Picabia" - I clicked Dada but it said "Incorrect." Fun quiz, though!