‘Computers cannot create narratives by using brute computational force to mindlessly try every alternative. It may be fun to think that 10,000 monkeys typing for 10,000 years will sooner or later randomly produce ”Paradise Lost,” but evidently this is no more plausible for silicon than simians. Computers don’t even play chess this way”
Computers as Authors? Literary Luddites Unite!
Daniel Akst. New York Times (Late Edition (east Coast) ). New York, N.Y.:Nov 22, 2004. p. E.1
Daniel Akst. New York Times (Late Edition (east Coast) ). New York, N.Y.:Nov 22, 2004. p. E.1