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- From: kasprj@operators.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai,rec.arts.books,misc.writing,rec.arts.int-fiction
- Subject: Re: Computer writes a book?
- Message-ID: <kxp36!l@rpi.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:49:25 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.163029.1901@seas.smu.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan25.163029.1901@seas.smu.edu>, pedersen@seas.smu.edu (Ted Pedersen) writes:
- |>
- |> I think this is a stunt. I don't really believe a computer program
- |> wrote this book. However, if anyone has any information about this
- |> book or the author that would give this some credibility I would like
- |> to hear about it. Comment on the general idea would be interesting as
- |> well. I don't think the idea itself is impossible, it just seems like
- |> this case is a little far fetched.
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- There is, in fact, some serious research going on in the area of
- computers writing books. Here at Rensselaer Polytutescrew Incorporated,
- professor Selmer Bringsjord has been working on several different projects
- aimed at getting a computer program to produce meaningful stories. Its
- primary goals are really the investigation of the philosophical and
- computing problems of getting something like this to work, and they haven't
- produced any computer-generated novels yet, but I've seen some rudimentary
- output. It looks something like children's stories written by Eliza.
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