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Although impressive, this quiz's content seems cherry picked for situations where bots can do well.

On the one hand we have highly informational content such as the one about the earthquake, earnings report and sports game. Reporting on this kind of information can be done in a context free way. Sentences and paragraphs can be self contained and need not reference each other or greater contexts. I only missed the sports game in part because I'm not an American and was not familiar with the game involved. In hindsight the earnings reports stands out from the others since much broader connections are made then just reporting the raw information itself.

On the other hand we have poetry, which is often so hard to parse that nonsense and genius are hard to tell apart, especially for short excerpts like these. I missed the poetry app one because although it read like nonsense for me, as a non native speaker much of these Shakespearean poems do on first sight. I don't know exactly why but "True Love" and "Absurdistan" immidetly stuck me as fake and real respectivly. For example I thought it was weird to be that her nerves where strained as two tight strings, and that someone would make her drink hot wine. Also the "True Love" excerpt seems very factual and deseperate where "Absurdistan" paints more of an atmosphere.



It could report on small events that are normally not covered to. Further it could customize articles based on readers interests. Have a favorite player? He is now highlighted in your articles.

It could also do vanity articles. Go back to your college days and write about your games, making you the highlight.

Worse it could be influenced to do personalized advertisements in the middle of the article.


> For example I thought it was weird [...] that someone would make her drink hot wine.

Hot wine is very much a thing (and it's delicious)! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulled_wine




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