The computer knows what True Love is.
The Petersburg publishing house announced that in early 2008 a novel, entirely written by a computer, would be released. A team of programmers and philologists compiled a program that made the novel True Love from the plot conflicts of Anna Karenina and the texts of 13 authors. However, writers and IT-specialists suggest that this is a "fake", according to RIA "New Region". The plot basis of the first "computer" novel with the code name [True Love] * .wrt was a love conflict between the title characters of Anna Karenina. The action takes place on an unknown island in times very similar to our days. The book is designed in the manner of Haruki Murakami, the style is based on vocabulary, language tools and techniques of 13 domestic and foreign authors of the XIX-XXI centuries.
To create the text of the novel, a team of developers and philologists created the PC Writer 2008 program, which took 8 months to write. Philologists collected a dossier for each hero of the novel, which included a description of appearance, vocabulary, a psychological portrait, and other characteristics. A description of the initial situation was also created on the basis of which the program generated the text of the novel, which took three days of continuous computer operation.
As stated by the publishing house "Astrel-SPb", the novel will be published in a circulation of 10 thousand copies - as a potential bestseller of the middle hand. According to the publisher, the cost of creating a novel, including a fee to program developers, turned out to be 10 times less than the fee for a popular Russian author. Professional writers believe that the novel was created by a very lively writer, who has more than a dozen works published under a false name. IT specialists were in solidarity with the writers and stated that the achievements in the field of artificial intelligence did not reach the level necessary for writing a novel, and even the currently promising developments do not allow writing software that would itself generate an artistic text with any kind of complex storyline.
Note that attempts to create an “artificial writer” have been made for a long time. The most successful experiments were those that had nothing to do with commercial literary activity: the projects of the Russian media artist Sergei Teterin “Andy Warhol's Mobile Avatar” and “Cyber-Pushkin”. "Warhol-Bot" was a program that allows using SMS to "communicate" with Andy Warhol. Warhol even gave coherent and quite logical answers.
A machine named " Cyber Pushkin“- A PC on which, according to the author,“ they only operate primitive programs for generating Russian-language poems. ”True, Sergey Teterin’s“ Cyber-Pushkin ”was exhibited in the St. Petersburg Hermitage in April 2006, and was presented at the Museumsquartier (Vienna, Austria) as part of the Roboexotica festival, performed at the Tretyakov Gallery and the Moscow Museum of Cinema in 2002.
Yandex also provided its users with a Poetry Generator named after A. Pushkin .
Experts predict a crushing run in circulation.
Via newsru.com