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Originally Posted by neil_swann80
If you were to find out Steinbeck was actually an AI, would that sully your view of the literature itself?
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To quote myself:
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I'd think that Tolkien Steinbeck was in the wrong field. While his books earned him eternal fame, his decades early work in artificial intelligence would have won him a(nother) Nobel prize, surely.
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One problem with AI is that it cannot come up with something original.
It's like all those Roger Corman and Italian knock-offs of Alien or Star Wars. It's easy enough to churn out works 'in the spirit of'. But there has to be the originals to base the work on.
You will (correctly) point out that Star Wars itself was based on the old Flash Gordon serials. But the point is, when it was made, nobody had any confidence in it. The smart money was on
Damnation Alley. That's why Lucas was able to buy the rights back. And the rest is history.
What AI is going to go against the grain and create something that unexpectedly captures the zeitgeist? What AI is going to whip up Harry Potter, The DaVinci Code, Twilight, Fifty Shades of Gray or any of the other sleeper hits that come in and change the market?