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Old 04-16-2008, 09:41 AM   #15
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Well honestly I dream myself of an *useful* "paper generator". Like one where you enter as keywords for example "bugs" and "vulcan", and will write an essay from an information base with all it knows about what bugs have to do with vulcans...

Otherwise a paper generator is nothing new:

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

This outputs already nice academic papers, that without some reasonable will to actually read it you hardly can tell it to be complete random bullshit.

This whole story remembers me somehow about *Racter* and "the policemans beard is half-constructed", that was an enourmous hype and made his creator famous, when later the software was analysed, it turned out to be quite a fraud. The software didn't make any texts, it only was available to mangle existing texts, until they appear to be something original... and a decade later, all the templates analysed Racter could never have created a sentance like "the policemans beard is half-constructed"...

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