Re: Computer creates fiction

From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2000 - 21:59:35 MST


I get a big whiff of Pirsig's Rhetoric class here. How does one teach
this code Quality? :)

Danny Yavuzkurt wrote:
>
> Just another little milestone on the road to Singularity.. not too
> surprising, considering the current state of AI research. Just a few
> grammatical rules, a few simple vocabulary definitions, with the only change
> being the addition of mathematical descriptions of human interaction, in
> this case the 'betrayal' plot device, and voila, a computer that writes
> (nearly) as well as a human hack...
>
> http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/178251l.htm
>
> I wonder if Robert Jordan is looking into this? (wry smile)



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