Not Waiting for the Asteroid

10 Replies to “Not Waiting for the Asteroid”

1. The machine was clearly the winner. “The facts, Ma’am, just the facts.” Clear, straightforward. Perfect scientific prose.
   Captcha is getting poetic now. “Fleek Av”?

2. If I cared at all about Denny’s Earnings reports – I think I would favor fact over fluff. Program wins for me.

3. I preferred the human story.
   Perhaps I’m ‘old stock’.

4. Predicted by an undergrad over ten years ago.
   http://broom.org/epic

5. Who … or what … do you suppose writes Obama’s speeches?

6. Who, I have no idea. I’m sure the ‘what’ is imam, though.

7. Computer generated stories will not become popular with the Editors and Publishers until the computer learns how to insert the progressive narrative and agenda in each story. My guess is it will take another three-five years.

8. For CBC it would be easy
   A lexicon of progressive phrases
   Harper regime
   Critics say
   Root causes
   Liberals slam
   Khadr (insert love phrase here)

9. What actually scares me isn’t that the computer did it faster. What scares me about this story is that (as RD points out) it can be programmed to take on a narrative. I doubt that a computer would try to disguise the narrative like a human would, but it scares me that it could be programmed to try.

10. “Looks like those clowns in Congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns.”
    “Heh, heh. How does he keep up with the news like that?”
    “Don’t praise the machine.”