The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed: Computer Prose and Poetry [图书] Goodreads
The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed is a 1984 collection of poems and short prose that was touted as "the first book ever written by a computer."
It is generally agreed that the sophistication claimed for the program was likely exaggerated.
The book's "author," Racter — short for Raconteur — was an artificial intelligence computer program written by William Chamberlain and Thomas Etter that generated English language prose at random.
Illustrations by Joan Hall.
It is generally agreed that the sophistication claimed for the program was likely exaggerated.
The book's "author," Racter — short for Raconteur — was an artificial intelligence computer program written by William Chamberlain and Thomas Etter that generated English language prose at random.
Illustrations by Joan Hall.