[abrudz]

Also (mind the year this is from!):

— Can you teach a computer to write poetry?

— If you can teach it--yes, there's nothing easier. One of the things is that you could do, for example, you could simply give it a collection of poems or prose or whatever you have, and then provide a program which selects pieces from these, either individual words, individual phrases, individual passages, and so on, and merges them together according to some criterion, which you would then write into the program, and also with a certain element of chance. Usually, you know, you'd say, "Well, you want to pick this sometimes, that sometimes." Yes, you can write it, but you raise the question, what would be the point?

[pjmlp]

Early computer folks were visionaries, they did plenty of stuff and ideas, that we are still slowly catching up to.

Imagine being able to do this on a random tablet (from ),

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cq8S3jzJiQ

The best we got is something like this,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifYuvgXZ108

[codr7]

What would be the point, indeed...

[juunpp]

Stonks