home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky comp.ai:5027 rec.arts.books:26366 misc.writing:4278 rec.arts.int-fiction:1283
- Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!echristo
- From: echristo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Elena A Christofides)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai,rec.arts.books,misc.writing,rec.arts.int-fiction
- Subject: Re: Computer writes a book?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.145900.1536@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:59:00 GMT
- Article-I.D.: magnus.1993Jan26.145900.1536
- References: <1993Jan25.163029.1901@seas.smu.edu> <XZ2yXB13w165w@west.darkside.c
- Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
- Organization: The Ohio State University
- Lines: 14
- Nntp-Posting-Host: photon.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
-
- Well, it hasn't actually written a book, but....
-
- My husband wrote a program that writes poetry. This program is actually in
- basic.
-
- In my modern poetry class a while ago, we had to submit up to three poems that
- were our own original work. Both my poems got A-/B+, whereas the computers poem
- got an A+!
-
- My instructor was none the wiser at the time - it was a little joke to show
- that the computer could write a L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poem as good if not better than
- the language poets themselves!
-
- Elena
-