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I got 6/8, but I had already heard of robots writing box-scores (more than one of the questions).

I was duped by the old english poetry, and also the novel which was dictating a human experience. I imagined it too difficult to write that for any current type of writing programs.

They need to get this technology into spam bots, pronto! http://xkcd.com/810/

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I was not duped by the old english poetry, but only because I recently wrote a Markov-chain / rhyming dictionary based Shakesperean sonnet generator. It's amazing to see a computer generate plausible but meaningless words in a register we generally regard as profound due to age!

The box scores were really good. They are the two that got me, I guess the word complexity is low -- so templating can be high, but they felt to me very human-ish.

A lot of templates and checking for noteworthy conditions. Seems pretty straightforward when you're interpreting a consistently structured set of data, just a lot of grunt work and polishing.

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