Writers now obselete?

[Eric Nielsen]

Thanks. I thought this was covered before, but I couldn't find the thread. I
came upon this company, Narrative Science, after following a link to a
business article at the Forbes.com site. It will be interesting to see how
far this technology can go. Whatever will humans do when machines do
whatever?

Eric

P.S. I think your translation services are not in danger of being outsourced
to machines any time soon, but the online translators do seem to be getting
better. My last experience with them (a month ago) was more satisfactory
than the times I had tried them before (probably about five years ago--with
great disappointment).


On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

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> See also the thread from last month on the same topic, but different
> article, titled "Sports writers to be replaced by 'bots".
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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
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Eric Nielsen <ericbarnak at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> 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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