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- From: fawcett@iron.cs.umass.edu (Tom Fawcett)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai,rec.arts.books,misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Computer writes a book?
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 22:50:07 GMT
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- In-reply-to: echristo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu's message of Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:59:00 GMT
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- Elena A Christofides writes:
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- > 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!
-
- This probably says more about the quality of work that the instructor was used
- to seeing -- or the state of modern poetry -- than it says about mechanized
- poetry generation.
-
- Or maybe BASIC is a far more complex and subtle language than we ever knew.
-
- -Tom
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