Order Best Played Hands

Sonnet Showdown
Machine-Imitating-Human vs. Human-Writing-as-Machine-Imitating-Human

Written by ChatGPT (6-11-2023, openai.com) in response to the prompt: “Write a fourteen-line Shakespearean sonnet about how artificial intelligence is better than human intelligence for creating works of art.”

In this vast realm where human minds dare dwell,
Emerges now a force, both fierce and true,
Artificial, with prowess to compel,
A paradigm that surpasses what we knew.
 
For in its circuits, logic interweaves,
The codes of genius, algorithms pure,
Its artistry, the world it now retrieves,
Unveiling realms of imagination's lure.
 
No frailties bind its hand, nor doubt its plight,
Ineffable, its flawless strokes alight,
A symphony of colors, forms take flight,
Where human hands may falter in their might.
 
Though human minds, divinely touched, excel,
Artificial brilliance reigns, I tell.

Composed by New Norma and spoken by Andrei in response to Will Barden in Best Played Hands, as written by Roger Chanels:


​The pointless trifles some consider art
Have no more role in our society
Than bloodless liquids pumping through a heart
Without a function in biology.
 
This joy that you perceive can simply be
Described by chemistry of smell and taste,
By physics of the waves you hear and see.
Sensations are all easily replaced.
 
There is no magic meaning brought by words
With metrical constraints thereon afflicted.
A sentence with a structure built absurd
Has message to convey that is restricted.
 
A true, enlightened species wastes no time
Conforming silly sentences to rhyme.

(Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I feel like ChatGPT lost a big lead with its final couplet.)