Automatic Book Writing

by Christine Cavalier on 8 February 2008

via @HMason in Twitter:

http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2252153,00.html

Basically, another chapter in the ‘artificial intelligence’ scare.

“The book-writing machine works simply, at least in principle. First, one feeds it a recipe for writing a particular genre of book – a tome about crossword puzzles, say, or a market outlook for products. Then hook the computer up to a big database full of info about crossword puzzles or market information. The computer uses the recipe to select data from the database and write and format it into book form.”

Ho-hum.

See some discussions on PurpleCar:

2 March 2009 -- How Do Memes Start? A Case Study: 100 Books in Facebook. (248)
7 February 2008 -- Out Riding Fences: Clash of the Storytellers. (78)
17 April 2008 -- Writing for Good: Email Our Military (74)

Anonymous

Here is the youtube of the patent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkS5PkHQphY
Anonymous

Here is the youtube of the patent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkS5PkHQphY
http://www.purplecar.net/ PurpleCar

awesome link, thanks!
http://www.purplecar.net/ PurpleCar

awesome link, thanks!
http://dudegoeswhat.com Tom Reeves

Yes. Writing is just that simple. I should give up. Maybe you should too .. your blog’s awesome!
http://dudegoeswhat.com Tom Reeves

Yes. Writing is just that simple. I should give up. Maybe you should too .. your blog’s awesome!
http://www.purplecar.net/ PurpleCar

yah man, don’t tempt me! I think of that every day. Don’t you?
http://www.purplecar.net/ PurpleCar

yah man, don’t tempt me! I think of that every day. Don’t you?
http://dudegoeswhat.com Tom Reeves

I don’t just think about that, I write about. But that kind of defeats the purpose, so I guess I’m stuck writing after all. Please leave some words for those of us hard-of-thinking.
http://dudegoeswhat.com Tom Reeves

I don’t just think about that, I write about. But that kind of defeats the purpose, so I guess I’m stuck writing after all. Please leave some words for those of us hard-of-thinking.