Writers now obselete?

[Laurence Horn]

On Oct 26, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:

> See also the thread from last month on the same topic, but different article, titled "Sports writers to be replaced by 'bots".

...and if they could just figure out a way to allow the participants in the contests themselves to be replaced by 'bots as well, there would probably be fewer worries about the threats of concussions (or of strikes/lockouts).

LH
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> There doesn't seem to be a way to search for messages by number, but they are 112866, 112868, 112869 and 112922.
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> It seems they have found a way to make this work commercially.
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> Benjamin Barrett
> Seattle, WA
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> On Oct 26, 2011, at 8:34 AM, Eric Nielsen wrote:
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>> Sorry, that should be "obsolete". I bet a machine wouldn't make that
>> mistake.
>>
>> Eric
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>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Eric Nielsen <ericbarnak at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> This could be an easy way to keep up with all one's social correspondence,
>>> but if my friends used the same kind of service--- what's the point. It
>>> would only be one program talking to another: Maybe eventually that will be
>>> the point.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://semanticweb.com/narrative-science-has-computers-writing-articles_b23085
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>
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