Last week, we brought to your attention arXiv vs. snarXiv, a kind of Turing Test for people into theoretical physics.  This week, again via Tyler Cowen (Master of the Internet), we discovered a fun website that specializes in computer-generated poetry.  The website, botpoet.com, presents a Turing-type test for people into poetry–it spits out a poem, and you have to guess whether the poem was written by a human or by a computer.  For example, was the poem below (“The Saxophone Player”) written by a human or a machine?

The Saxophone Player

The saxophone player
lives alone,
blows
lives alone,
blows
a swinging door
splendid silence
prophetic poses
splendid silence
prophetic poses
of a prayer and the walls.