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Can AI write good novels?

I expect that this is probably the year I'll need to consider how my profession will change if students start…

2 years ago

He couldn’t get over his fiancee’s death. So he brought her back as an A.I. chatbot

The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious artificial intelligence website allow him…

3 years ago

In April, 2001 I was blogging about interactive fiction, Roget’s Thesaurus, John Lennon, HTML Frames, and C.S. Lewis

A student newspaper article about interactive fiction (quoting Emily Short and me) Blaming Roget's Thesaurus Finding the URL of a…

4 years ago

Robot wars: 100 years on, it’s time to reboot Karel Čapek’s RUR

I was honored to play Alquist in Artistic Prosperity's virtual production of RUR over the summer. I'm glad to see…

4 years ago

Microsoft lays off journalists to replace them with AI

Microsoft is laying off dozens of journalists and editorial workers at its Microsoft News and MSN organizations. The layoffs are…

4 years ago

The Measure of a Man (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 9)

Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break. Data's autonomy is at stake in a taut, character-driven courtroom drama that resists pandering…

5 years ago

Two Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chatbots Talk and Argue with Each Other

Sounds like a typical grad school seminar. https://youtu.be/vphmJEpLXU0

8 years ago

‘Broken Age’ Review

This will be my self-reward when I finish all my obligations for the term. For the uninitiated, here’s the rundown.…

10 years ago

John McCarthy, the father of artificial intelligence, dies at 84

In the mid-1950s mathematician John McCarthy issued a call for research on "Automata Studies," but the phrase was so bland…

13 years ago

Gamification: When two tribes go to work – Features, Gadgets & Tech – The Independent

Honestly, this does not sound good. In the short term, it will only be possible to alter the "flavor text"…

14 years ago

SPACEWAR: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums

(A transcription of the text and scans of photos from a 1972 magazine article about the legendary space combat computer…

14 years ago

Pre-Grade Your Paper

It's not really a grading tool, but it might be worth introducing into the writing process.  I'm running a paper…

15 years ago

Deep Throat Meets Data Mining

Journalism is changing. Watchdog journalism -- the perusal of thousands of pages of official records in search of anomalies and…

16 years ago

SPACEWAR – by Stewart Brand – Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums.

Great 1972 Rolling Stone article about a foundational computer game. Reliably, at any nighttime moment (i.e. non-business hours) in North…

17 years ago

Chapter 11: The State of IF Today

Efforts are afoot to not only make IF more accessible, but to make it more modern and attractive in appearance.…

18 years ago

Thinking machines go pop

I take the view that computer languages, robot ethics, method acting, and biomechanics are the main ingredients that fused, in…

20 years ago

An Improvement of XML

The implications of scalable theory have been far-reaching and pervasive. In fact, few end-users would disagree with the deployment of…

20 years ago

Nick Montfort on Artificial Intelligence

just finished a draft of an encyclopedia entry about "artificial intelligence." It's for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory and…

21 years ago

My Visit to the John Lennon Artificial Intelligence Project

John Lennon Artificial Intelligence Project: Hey, this is John speaking...Who're you? [Enter your first name below] > Dennis Nice to…

24 years ago