As formulaic as some series are, I wonder how long it will be until a best seller is "written" by a program?
Sounds like a human-guided genetic algorithm might be able to handle this today.
Programmer creates 800,000 books algorithmically, starts selling them on Amazon
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#12As formulaic as some series are, I wonder how long it will be until a best seller is "written" by a program?
"The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed," written in 1983 by a program named Racter. Bestseller? It's very well known, but I don't know how well it sold.
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#13Ugh. It feels like the cesspool of the SEO underworld is physically manifesting itself.
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#14Re: Programmer creates 800,000 books algorithmically, starts selling them on Amazon
#15This [1]The 2009-2014 Outlook for Wood Toilet Seats in Greater China seems to be the most reviewed book (35) at 3.3 stars, being sold for $495 USD.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/2009-2014-Outlook-Toilet-Seats-Greater...
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#16So this guy has been able to find a common schema across several different domains and add rules to it to churn out content. I like the concept. I watched the video in the article and could see how this could be used for instruction in the case where the resources like trained teachers are scarce.
I've had a feeling for a long time that due to the predictability of humans and our processes that it this is inevitable. I think it's great that he can do this for things like instruction but if this were to get "smart" enough that would put a lot of people out of work.
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#17At 29 USD for 38 pages, Basketry[0] doesn't look like a particularly useful buy. Also, from the description: "…editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process." Is it really correct to describe that as an editorial decision? (Not to mention "editorial decisions…is"?) [0]: http://www.amazon.com/Basketry-Websters-Timeline-History-700...
The index for this book is also useless. It seems to index every word in the text, whether it's significant or not; for example, "September". Also the index has entries for "Nova" and "Scotia", but not "Nova Scotia" (which is presumably where these two words came from).
I don't think that real authors would face any significant competition from this guy.
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#18This [1] The 2009-2014 Outlook for Wood Toilet Seats in Greater China seems to be the most reviewed book (35) at 3.3 stars, being sold for $495 USD. [1] http://www.amazon.com/2009-2014-Outlook-Toilet-Seats-Greater...
Should be noted that they are all joke reviews.
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#19This [1] The 2009-2014 Outlook for Wood Toilet Seats in Greater China seems to be the most reviewed book (35) at 3.3 stars, being sold for $495 USD. [1] http://www.amazon.com/2009-2014-Outlook-Toilet-Seats-Greater...
Check out the "customer images" for this book...
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#20I think only humans can create IP, though IANAL.