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Alex R ([personal profile] alexr_rwx) wrote2005-10-06 09:49 pm

nobody remembers my robot "Milhaus".

This semester's AI term project: automated poetry. I'd always wanted to make a really good automatic poetry system. You'll say "I want these lines with this meter, with these lines rhyming..." and maybe if I get to it, "... and it should include these words and thematically related ones".

Maybe I can grab the OpenCyc "general knowledge base" and use that to figure out what's related to what. Maybe it can generate something likely with Markov chains and then munge that up to fit the constraints.

I wrote the syllable counter earlier tonight :)

Remember that automatic poetry bot from Cyberiad? Brett [livejournal.com profile] zip4096, I still haven't read Solaris... I'll get to it one of these years :)

[identity profile] brainfaucet.livejournal.com 2005-10-07 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Holy crap that's incredible!

[identity profile] yaello.livejournal.com 2005-10-07 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
your automated poetry system would be the perfect complement to my jackson pollock robot!

[identity profile] zip4096.livejournal.com 2005-10-07 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Oh!! I do remember Milhaus!! Did he work by, like, random_line(list1) + random_line(list2) + random_line(list3) ?

No worries on Solaris :) I find it heartwarming in a way, that years can go by and we still have books borrowed... :) Er, I think I left Cyberiad in Tally... I also have your copy of Flatland in my car! :)

[identity profile] sault.livejournal.com 2005-10-07 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
'I wrote the syllable counter earlier tonight.'

I hate you.

Oops, I mean, er...good job!

least constraining varbial, most constraining value.

[identity profile] klausboy.livejournal.com 2005-10-08 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I like AI, but i am fearing it is far too programming intensive for my third CS course here. I ain't picking up on lisp quick enough really. But the theory, I love the theory.

LOVE