painmike
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Post by painmike on Dec 15, 2012 11:58:04 GMT -8
Automated word processing, sooner or later a threat for garage fiction? singularityhub.com/2012/12/13/patented-book-writing-system-lets-one-professor-create-hundreds-of-thousands-of-amazon-books-and-counting/This shouldn't be anything new actually but I've been thinking of creating some macros into office software Probably not. From my blog: 'The title("Just what do you think you're doing, HAL?") refers to this article in SingularityHUB. While it touches the noble section of fact books and data, I still fear the authors – from novice to professional, from left to right, from poor to wealthy, from homeless to billionaires, from sick to healthy, from drunk to sober – palpitate their rage and despair and denial into the public channels upon this kind of news; would it still be better to pour little more port and tend the hearth, then return at Remington?.......But the fact is that of course the development of computer has included the Monkeys vs. Shakespeare scenario as long as there have beet binaries processed. No surprises there.' What do you think about this kind of development?
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ahpellett
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Post by ahpellett on Dec 15, 2012 13:24:57 GMT -8
I believe that the robo-writer may be a future threat to any genre that is dependent upon repetitive or well known themes (romance, classic westerns, erotic, etc. ... even history). Where it is not a threat is where the writing is unique and the themes are new.
I don't really enjoy reading a story--or experiencing any media for that matter--that is predictable. I expect that robo-writing will produce just that.
I guess a little part of me thinks this might be a good thing for those of us who want our work to stand out from the rest and write to that.
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Post by Ted on Dec 15, 2012 20:31:55 GMT -8
....I don't really enjoy reading a story--or experiencing any media for that matter--that is predictable. I expect that robo-writing will produce just that.... I agree. I find myself switching TV channels (Okay. There it is. I admit I watch TV.) because after 3-4 minutes of viewing an utterly predictable hour long serial I get bored by the lack of imagination. The same goes for some books. After a few chapters the plot is predictable, but if the writing can keep my attention with a few unexpected quirks here and there then I will continue reading. It's those quirks that any robo-writing program will find very hard to produce. I suspect some of these robo-writing programs will be like Google Translate or any other computerized translation program; translated the words, almost, but completely lost the meaning if words above a grade 4 level. And sometimes not even at that level.
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nodanico
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Post by nodanico on Dec 20, 2012 22:17:53 GMT -8
As soon as the computer can link up with tv tropes, the singularity will began. An event on par with Skynet connecting to the U.S. missile silos. I can't wait for Edgar A.I. Poe's The Tell-Tell Hotmail and Fall of the House of Unix
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Post by Ted on Dec 22, 2012 6:31:52 GMT -8
... I can't wait for Edgar A.I. Poe's The Tell-Tell Hotmail and Fall of the House of Unix ;D ;D ;D That's great! I do believe I see a very erotic, hugely successful ebook titled The Tell-Tell Hotmail.
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