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Gary Gifford wrote on Mon, Jun 2, 2008 08:44 PM UTC:

When GD writes: 'Computers will never write rhymed lines this century where every syllable matches in rhyme like: ''The avatar Horus' all-seeing Eye/ We have a star-chorus rallying cry.'' Granted most would not like style of writing, but still Computer cannot do it, rhyme every word with meaning.'

I bet if you offered a $20,000 reward we'd see many programs coming to meet the poetic challenge within a matter of months. You can read about computer generated writing here:

http://www.evolutionzone.com/kulturezone/c-g.writing/index_body.html

Anyway, I believe that computers are up to such a poetic task... it just takes a motivated programmer.

Back to CVs: Chess is a great game. And just because computers can play it far better than most, are we to discard it? I don't think so; not as long as humans vs. humans and enjoy the game while doing so. The same goes with other variants.

As for the poetry, just because computers don't write that style certainly doesn't motivate me to do so.