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AI can learn to write like Shakespeare. Can you tell the difference?

In 2015, computer scientist Andrej Karpathy used artificial intelligence to generate Shakespearean-style text, with some pretty convincing results.

Take these two lines for example, which are AI generated:

O, if you were a feeble sight, the courtesy of your law,

Your sight and several breath, will wear the gods.

The exercise was part of a wave of experiments in computer-generated art, which have challenged the definition of 'artist'.

Let's see if you can tell the difference between Karpathy's AI-generated text, and the words of the Bard himself.

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