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- From: charlie@kittyhawk.ecn.uoknor.edu (Charlie J Church)
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- Subject: Re: Computer writes a book?
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:01:08 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.163029.1901@seas.smu.edu> <XZ2yXB13w165w@west.darkside.c <1993Jan26.145900.1536@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan26.145900.1536@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> echristo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Elena A Christofides) writes:
- >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
-
- Please post to the network, I would like to see for myself.
- Charlie
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