Style Blog: Can you tell the difference between a human writer and a robot?

Bot or Not is a simple game with an existentially complicated premise: Can you tell whether a short poem was written by an actual writer or a machine? Oscar Schwartz and Benjamin Laird, two Australians working at the intersection of literature and media, came up with the game as a sort of modern-day Turing test for computer poetry. And much like the original Turing tests, designed in the 1950s as a benchmark for machine intelligence, the differences can prove difficult to parse -- particularly s...