Ben Ostrowsky ([info]sylvar) wrote,
@ 2005-09-15 10:50:00
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Entry tags:artificial intelligence, auctions, books, ebay, selling, the simpsons

Auctioning some geeky stuff
I'm selling Seasons 1-5 of The Simpsons and the first book ever written by a computer (The Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed, Racter, 1984) on eBay.

Wish me luck and/or put in a bid! (I'm guessing that [info]papertygre and [info]bethlynn will want the AI-written book, or know someone who would.)


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[info]poppinjaye
2005-09-15 03:33 pm UTC (link)
I work for the one of the creators of BRUTUS, over here.

http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/1998/C/199802590.html

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[info]sylvar
2005-09-15 03:34 pm UTC (link)
Oooh. This page looks particularly computer-generated. :)

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[info]poppinjaye
2005-09-15 03:37 pm UTC (link)
That's an old site--there is no ppcs dept anymore. Not since way before I started here. Now it's just Cognitive Science.

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[info]sylvar
2005-09-15 03:36 pm UTC (link)
Oh, and by the way, tell your employer about my auction, eh?

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[info]poppinjaye
2005-09-15 03:38 pm UTC (link)
I'd be surprised if he didn't have it...but ok :)

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[info]bethlynn
2005-09-15 07:12 pm UTC (link)
bid has been placed

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[info]sylvar
2005-09-15 07:15 pm UTC (link)
woo woo!

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curious
[info]papertygre
2005-09-16 06:51 am UTC (link)
Is the Racter book interesting? What's it about?

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Re: curious
[info]sylvar
2005-09-16 02:51 pm UTC (link)
It's poetry and prose generated by a text-generating program; there have been allegations that the human involved tampered with the output. Many of the prose bits are isomorphic to each other; a fair imitation would be "Mary considers John but John does not contemplate Mary. Cabbages resplendently ponder Mary. Many philologists dance terribly with the cabbages."

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