Computers do many things well. But can they write great poetry? Not really, a group found out.

Scientists made computer programs. The programs wrote sonnets. They were used in a poetry competition. This was at Dartmouth College. Computers wrote poems. People did, too.

Judges read all the poems. Could they tell which poems were computer written? They could. The sonnets didn't flow well. They didn't tell a story. Some words weren't used in the right way.

One professor wasn't surprised. She thinks poetry should come from life. Others disagree. They say computers will write beautiful poems someday. Computers just need the right programming.

Vocabulary

competition(noun)：a game or contest in which people try to win

poetry(noun)：a type of writing that often rhymes and may not be in sentences

professor(noun)：a teacher in a college or a university (schools that people can attend after high school)

program(noun)：something that is run on a computer

sonnet(noun)：a poem of 14 lines that has a certain rhyming pattern; it also has a set rhythm and form