Can AI write better poetry than most people?

With so many terrible human-generated words out there, is it any wonder that people are using machines instead.

Every year Master of Malt, the online retailer I used to work for, has a poetry competition for Burns Night. All you have to do is submit a poem related to whisky and Burns and the best one wins a bottle of whisky. In my six years at the company, it’s about the only good marketing idea I ever had. Some years we’d have less than 100 entries, sometimes up…