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.
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Here is the youtube of the patent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkS5PkHQphY
awesome link, thanks!
Yes. Writing is just that simple. I should give up. Maybe you should too 🙂 .. your blog’s awesome!
yah man, don’t tempt me! I think of that every day. Don’t you?
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.