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- From: bill@waikato.ac.nz
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- Subject: Re: Computer writes a book?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan29.113851.13508@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 29 Jan 93 11:38:50 +1300
- References: <1993Jan25.163029.1901@seas.smu.edu> <kxp36!l@rpi.edu> <1k56lgINNc5q@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <1k56lgINNc5q@shelley.u.washington.edu>, twain@milton.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin) writes:
- > 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
- >
- >
- >> 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?
-
- Well one reason would be that once computers can churn out mass-market books
- such as Mills and Boon romance novels, humans would no longer be able to
- compete because the computers would be far cheaper. Humans would then be
- forced to turn their creative talents to other kinds of writing, be more
- unpredictable and perhaps invent many more new styles of writing as well.
- I look forward to the day. Especially for TV scripts. I'm convinced there
- is a computer out there already churning out scripts for American TV
- programs. (Hollywood sub-plot 2.1 : The hero always marries the heroine).
- >
- > (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
- >
- >
- >
-