The AI tracker: Poetry, threats and hallucinations.. what artificial intelligence has been up to

As communications theorist Marshall McLuhan has put it, technology is an extension of humans and prone to have all facets of being human — the good, the bad, the ugly. Here’s how AI has made the buzz recently:

Who’s a better poet?

Has AI become a literary expert too? Can it compete with the Bard of Avon William Shakespeare? Not in clear terms, but a recent study published in journal Nature says that non-expert poetry readers were able to distinguish between AI-generated poems and those written by well-known human poets with only 46.6% accuracy.