Question

US poet Allen Ginsberg once said, "Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind."

In celebrating World Poetry Day, March 21, UNESCO discovers the special ability of poetry to express the human spirit.

The magic of poetry lies in the connection built up through words between the author and the reader. When we read a poem, we often imagine what the poet was thinking when they wrote it, or what they were doing at the time. These thoughts let us connect with the words better.

But in the age of AI(人工智能), would a poem still mean as much if it wasn't written by a human at all? Today, computers can create all kinds of texts, even poems included.

In 2013, Australian researcher Oscar Schwartz and his friend Benjamin Laird created a website called "bot or not", where readers can read poems and guess whether they were written by a human or a computer. During a recent speech at TedX Sydney, Schwartz said that throughout the years, some of the website's poems were able to fool 65 percent of human readers into thinking they were written by a human.

By starting the website, Schwartz and Laird hoped that people would question the difference between humans and machines and be able to find out what makes us human.

Unstableness(不稳定性)is part of the answer. "The human is not a cold, hard fact," Schwartz said. "Rather, it is something that's constructed(构成)with our ideas and something that changes over time."

A computer may be able to create poems that are correct in both grammar and style, but it wouldn't be able to get the same meanings and feelings across as a human poet could. In fact, today's AI software creates poems based on ones that have already been written by humans. As Schwartz noted, "The computer works like a mirror that reflects(反映)any idea of a human that developers teach it."

So a new challenge arises: What kind of human mind do we want the computer to reflect back at us?

1.What's the purpose of the first three paragraphs?

A.To introduce how World Poetry Day was started.

B.To show the popularity of poetry around the world.

C.To show the importance and beauty of poetry.

D.To give some tips on appreciating(欣赏).

2.What do the data(数据)from "bot or not" show?

A.Computers are better than humans at writing poetry.

B.Computers can also produce poems of high quality.

C.Readers don't really care whether the poems were written by humans.

D.Few readers can tell poems written by computers from those by humans.

3.According to Schwartz, what makes humans different from machines?

A.We have changing ideas. B.We often make mistakes.

C.We are stable in what we do. D.We value feelings over facts.

4.Why can't computers match humans in creating poems according to the article?

A.They can't express feelings as well as humans.

B.They can't create poems that make sense(说得通)at all.

C.They fail to use the correct grammar and style.

D.They only know how to copy poems written by humans.

Answer 1