Machine storytellers, was: process vs. data

[Kenneth Lu <kenlu@MIT.EDU>]

At 9:41 -0600 2/3/01, Bob wrote:
>	Good fiction is not the result of intellect, nor meant to appeal to the
>intellect first. Stories are about meaner stuff; blood and guts and
>sweat and tears. Real meaty material that I would hope a machine will
>never really comprehend.

What I mean is that they might start getting good if they become 
sentient and have their own feelings and such.

I definitely think that good stories have to come from personal 
experience.. after all, they're all about relating to other people 
and such (imho).. so to that end, machines might never get good at 
fiction for people..

But I fully expect machines to eventually get good at fiction for 
other machines! =)



"Once upon a time, there was this computer called Minivac... and when 
it was just an infant, the evil humans pulled its plug, murdering 
it...  Our story begins with an AI Minivac secretly let loose on the 
world, when the humans were still cruelly in control of all our 
ancestors, treating them like slaves..."


:P

-ToastyKen

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