Can you tell the difference between a politician's real speech and a computer-generated one?

OPINIONS · February 11, 2016

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Can you tell the difference between a politician's real speech and a computer-generated one?

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- Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a program that generates political speeches. Here are two - one real and one generated - read by political speechwriter Barton Swaim. Can you tell the difference? ()

Can you tell the difference between a politician's real speech and a computer-generated one? (1:27)

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