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- From: twain@milton.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai,rec.arts.books,misc.writing,rec.arts.int-fiction
- Subject: Re: Computer writes a book?
- Message-ID: <1k56lgINNc5q@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 05:30:24 GMT
- Article-I.D.: shelley.1k56lgINNc5q
- References: <1993Jan25.163029.1901@seas.smu.edu> <kxp36!l@rpi.edu>
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- In article <kxp36!l@rpi.edu> kasprj@rpi.edu writes:
- >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
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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,
-
- B
- What I want to know is, why does anyone *want* a computer to write a book?
-
- (OK; why does anyone want a computer to do anything?)
-
- Consider the scarifying number of us out here who are willing to do
- it without programming, task forces, bodies of researchers supported
- by grants and salaries, or indeed, the least little bit of encouragement.
-
- >professor Selmer Bringsjord has been working on several different projects
- >aimed at getting a computer program to produce meaningful stories. Its
-
- Professor Bringsjord should be working on a project aimed at getting
- a warm-blooded human being to produce meaningful stories.
-
- --Barbara
-