AI creates Shakespearean sonnets – and they’re actually quite good

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The course of AI never did run smooth

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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? It’s one of the most famous opening lines in poetry and comes from one of Shakespeare’s best-known sonnets. Now AI is trying to come up with its own version of the form – with mixed results (examples below).

Sonnets come in many different variations but they always have 14 lines and usually include a regular rhyme scheme of some sort. Shakespeare pioneered his own version in which the lines were divided into 3 verses (or stanzas) …