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Old 11-28-2018, 08:13 AM   #91
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Old 11-28-2018, 08:18 AM   #92
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Well, I really derailed this thread didn't I?
Sorry folks.

But it does highlight the problems the robotrucks would face off the interstates and why they're best for long distance hauling. And why the original concept for automated vehicles still has a role to play: wired roads, like slot racing cars. But with buried cables down the centerlines. Or maybe partitioned roads.

The less the robots have to deal with humans, the better for everybody.
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Old 11-28-2018, 08:36 AM   #93
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Amazon already does produce AI generated novels. Hence all those romance novels that are on Kindle Unlimited.
nope - those are written by people
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Old 11-28-2018, 09:29 AM   #94
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I hope you aren't saying the one about the billionaire biker boss who falls for his shapeshifting BBW secretary wasn't a novel straight from the author's soul!
While browsing new Overdrive listings at my library a while back, I saw a book called Single Undead Moms Club - maybe AI is responsible for this!
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Old 11-28-2018, 12:11 PM   #95
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While browsing new Overdrive listings at my library a while back, I saw a book called Single Undead Moms Club - maybe AI is responsible for this!
That does seem the most likely explanation. A human author would have known that "Moms' Club" should have an apostrophe .
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That does seem the most likely explanation. A human author would have known that "Moms' Club" should have an apostrophe .
It doesn't necessarily need to be possessive. It could just be that a group of Single Undead Moms formed a group: The Single Undead Moms Group.
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It doesn't necessarily need to be possessive. It could just be that a group of Single Undead Moms formed a group: The Single Undead Moms Group.
That's how the Undead Moms group in my area spells it.
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I don't actually remember if the title had an apostrophe or not - but maybe if you really care, you can find the book and check the title - then read the whole book, and let us know if the content is as bad as the title
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Old 11-28-2018, 02:06 PM   #99
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I don't actually remember if the title had an apostrophe or not - but maybe if you really care, you can find the book and check the title - then read the whole book, and let us know if the content is as bad as the title
It might actually be a great spoof, you know.
A silly title usually signals an intentionally silly story.
The ones to watch out for are the earnestly serious titles.

For example, there is this extremely successful series:

Undead and Unwed
Undead and Unemployed
Undead and Unappreciated
Undead and Unreturnable

And those are just the first four in a looonnnggg series.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/..._Vampire_Queen

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It's been a helluva year. First I lose my job. Then, I'm in a car accident. Next, I'm waking up dressed in clothes I wouldn't be caught dead in (pink polyester and cheap shoes courtesy of my evil stepmother). But guess what? I am dead and what really bites is that I can't seem to stay dead. Every night, I wake up with a horrible craving. Not chocolate—mom would approve of that. No, all of a sudden my snack choice is blood, and I'm not taking well to a liquid diet.

Yep, that's me: Betsy Taylor, a single, unemployed Minneapolis secretary. Taller at six feet than most of the men I meet. Pretty, but so dull my cat runs away three times a month. And now: a vampire. No sooner am I undead, than my stepmonster steals my shoes. My hellishly expensive, to-die-for shoes. What's worse, my new friends have the ridiculous idea that I'm their prophesied vampire queen. I must help them overthrow the baddest vampire lord they've seen in five centuries. Personally, I don't care—until they use a powerful temptation: designer shoes. How can I resist?
Trust me, no AI software will ever learn to do that kind of silly. It's too illogical that something that bad could be that good.

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Old 11-28-2018, 02:06 PM   #100
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I don't actually remember if the title had an apostrophe or not - but maybe if you really care, you can find the book and check the title - then read the whole book, and let us know if the content is as bad as the title
Local library: "The Single Undead Moms Club" by Molly Harper, Half-Moon Hollow Series, Book 4.

It is checked out with 2 holds. Someone must like it.

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Local library: "The Single Undead Moms Club" by Molly Harper, Half-Moon Hollow Series, Book 4.

It is checked out with 2 holds. Someone must like it.

À chacun son goût. One man's fish is another man's poisson.
I assume you put it on your hold list .
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I hope you aren't saying the one about the billionaire biker boss who falls for his shapeshifting BBW secretary wasn't a novel straight from the author's soul!
That's the one you gave 5 crosses to.
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I thought it was obvious that those aren't generated by AI. They have special AS machines for those.
It's a special program Amazon uses called Rubbish Romance Writer.
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Continuing with roundabouts, I "love" some of the new roundabouts in my area. The city didn't get rid of the 4 way stop signs, they just added an island in the middle of the intersection making it near impossible for any vehicle larger than a Scion IQ to go around the roundabout without clipping a curb thus yielding the worst of both worlds -- a scenario dear to a city planner's heart.

Anyone else remember the Mythbuster's episode MythBusters: Four-way stop vs. Roundabout? They at least had the common sense to build their roundabout large enough to be useful.
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That's the one you gave 5 crosses to.
I immediately purchased the whole series!
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