The video released by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson in 2004: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt3TmUW90B8 A very similar and slightly more interesting version, perhaps released in 2005?...
The video released by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson in 2004:
Pretty eerie... it's interesting to see how the predictions mostly turned out true except that companies don't need to merge for industries to fall apart.
I guess this is more speculative fiction than historical "content" but the Wikipedia entry is essentially historical writing--not sure if this is the right Tildes topic
Using a new algorithm, Googlezon’s computers construct news stories dynamically, stripping sentences and facts from all content sources and recombining them. The computer writes a news story for...
The video released by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson in 2004:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt3TmUW90B8
A very similar and slightly more interesting version, perhaps released in 2005?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVfBuw1hCsw
Pretty eerie... it's interesting to see how the predictions mostly turned out true except that companies don't need to merge for industries to fall apart.
I guess this is more speculative fiction than historical "content" but the Wikipedia entry is essentially historical writing--not sure if this is the right Tildes topic
Using a new algorithm, Googlezon’s computers construct news stories dynamically, stripping sentences and facts from all content sources and recombining them. The computer writes a news story for every user.
In 2011, the slumbering Fourth Estate awakes to make its first and final stand. The New York Times Company sues Googlezon, claiming that the company’s fact-stripping robots are a violation of copyright law.
Weird I was just thinking about this the other day. Couldn't find it since all my memories of it were too vague.