In my weird poetry tests, Google's Bard loses to Bing and ChatGPT-4 by a lot. It can't do a sestina at all, even after being asked about the form. And the poetry is super boring Bing and ChatGPT-4 are almost right, but forget the pattern of the poetic form right before the envoi
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Bard also fails the Lem Test SciFi author Stanislaw Lem wrote of two rival constructors of robots. One creates a robotic poet & the other challenges it to write an impossible poem, which it does (the English translator did a great job). Here is the original, Bard, ChatGPT & Bing

Mar 22, 2023 · 3:40 AM UTC

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Replying to @emollick
Ethan, how many times do we have to explain the concept of slant rhymes to you! :) Give some Bob Dylan a listen, heck "changing of the guards" has a slant sampson reference too.
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Replying to @emollick
I asked it for a sonnet and it gave me a 20-line poem
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Replying to @emollick
Ethan, Bing also failed the test everytime when I prompted it on all three settings. Even when I pointed out the errors it couldn't fix it. Only when I told Bing to research poetry did it pass.
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Replying to @emollick
Fascinating. Google Bard looks like ChatGPT’s original poetry in December. It did a much better job if given a poem to complete. Especially if it knew a bit of the poem from its training data, it could hallucinate the rest compellingly. But rhyme was a big challenge.
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Replying to @emollick
I have never stopped being amazed at Michael Kandel's extraordinary translations of Lem's work. They're remarkable creative efforts in their own right.
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