The authors of the recent study had to concede that computer sonnets “still underperform in terms of readability and emotion” after they failed to convince a professor of English. The problem wasn’t simply the inferior quality of their language but the faultlessness of their metre. The computer system, to which the scientists input thousands of existing sonnets, achieved a higher degree of metrical accuracy and rhyme than was found in poems written by humans. The computer, in other words, failed to break the rules in the ways that real poets do.
Computers also have no experience, no memories or longings. They do not hear anything.
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