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![]() Do you write poetry? I mean, yourself. Given the necessary technology, you can put your feet up and watch TV, and let your trusty IBM unit do the work.
It's not like IBM had a monopoly on poetry machines; there was also the Philco Versomatic.
Most computer science students write at least one program that generates verbiage on command. A good example of a computer program that writes poetry is Ray Kurzweil's Cybernetic Poet. As you can tell by the name, it's been around for a while; he wrote the first one in the mid-1980's.
Here's how it works:
The earliest use of computers in constructing algorithmic sentences that I've found dates from 1952. The Ferranti Mark 1 created love letters from a static list of words, a very simple version of the way modern newsbots build articles from preprogrammed phrases.
“Dear Honey, my avid appetite lusts after your anxious desire. You are my beautiful tenderness my adorable longing,” begins one such letter signed, “Yours seductively—MUC.”
Compare to the knowledge engine from Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift, the novel-writing machine from 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) (1948) by George Orwell, the bard from Someday (1956) by Isaac Asimov, the rthetorizer from The Penultimate Truth (1964) by Philip K. Dick and the electronic bard from The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age (1965). Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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