Output : an anthology of computer-generated text, 1953-2023 / edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne, 1983- editor.

Montfort, Nick, editor.

Series:

Hardcopy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer literature.

Genre:

Computer-generated literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 475 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press ; Denver : Counterpath, [2024]

Biography/History:

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of Travesty Generator, a book of computational poetry that was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry, and several other poetry books. They direct the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of Maryland. Nick Montfort is a poet and artist who uses computation as his medium. His MIT Press publications range from The New Media Reader (coedited) and Twisty Little Passages to, most recently, The Future and the second edition of Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities. He is Professor of Digital Media at MIT and Principal Investigator in the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Summary:

"An anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created long before ChatGPT. The discussion of computer-generated text has recently reached a fever pitch but largely omits the long history of work in this area -- text generation, as it happens, was not invented yesterday in Silicon Valley. This anthology, Output, thoughtfully selected, introduced, and edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort, aims to correct that omission by gathering seven decades of English-language texts produced by generation systems and software. The outputs span many different types of creative writing and include text generated by research systems, along with reports and utilitarian texts, representing many general advances and experiments in text generation. Output is first and foremost a collection of outputs to be encountered by readers. In addition to an overall introduction, each of the excerpts is introduced individually and organized by fine-grain genre including conversations, humor, letters, poetry, prose, and sentences. Bibliographic references allow readers to learn more about outputs and systems that intrigue them. Although Output could serve as a reference book, it is designed to be readable and to be read. Purposefully excluded are human-computer collaborations that were conceptually defined but not implemented as a computer system.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Conversations ; ELIZA ; SHRDLU ; PARRY ; Adventure ; Zork ; ALICE ; Galatea ; Cleverbot ; Tay ; Sandy speaks ; Al dungeon ; Subreddit simulator ; Pharmako-AI ; The infinite conversation ; Not the only one

Humor ; JAPE ; The joking computer ; Puniverse ; GAG ; Witscript

Letters ; Love letters ; STOP ; Dear Santa ; Poliscribe ; NLG for healthcare

Novels ; American Psycho ; The Death of the Authors ; Alice's Adventures in the Whale ; Moebius Tentacle; Or the Space-Octopus ; Somewhere, Something ; The Annals of the Parrigues ; The Explainer ; A.I A.I: By an A.I ; If On a Winter's Night, A Library Cardholder ; A Noise Such as a Man Might Make ; Hard West Turn ; 1 The Road ; For The Sleepers in That Quiet Earth ; Subcutanean ; Old Sea ; Autobiology

Performance ; SAGA ; Hello hi there ; Action score generator ; Sunspring ; The listeners ; print(dialogue)

Poetry ; Auto-beatnik ; Tape mark 1 ; The house of dust ; PFR-3 poems ; ERATO ; POET ; Energy crisis poems ; Poetrywriter ; RACTER ; Dizains ; Triolets ; Poetry generator ; Sentences ; The half-muffled clappers ; White-faced bromeliads on 20 hectares ; Pillage laud ; Apostrophe engine ; ETC ; The girl with skin of haints and seraphs ; Human resources ; ETC, issue 1 ; Frequency ; Status update ; Generation[s] ; Lovecraft remixed ; Taroko gorge ; Evolution ; House of trust ; Monoclonal microphone ; Articulations ; Machine, unlearning ; Data poetry ; Blanks ; A new sermon on the warpland ; Rerites ; Transformer poetry ; Machines upon every flower ; Work, life, balance ; Warpland ; Total furnishing unit ; We are invited to climb ; Technelegy ; Poetry has no future unless it comes to an end ; Wash day ; I am code ; Banner depot 2000 poetry maker

Haiku ; List-based haiku ; Computerized Japanese haiku ; A selection of haiku ; Haiku are like trollies ; Merz semi-random haiku ; A slow year ; Nsa haiku ; New York Times haiku bot ; Haikusbot

Sonnets ; Absolute sonnets ; The temptations of tantalus ; Pentametron, I got a alligator for a pet ; Hafez ; Recurrent neural net sonnet generator ; Pentamatron, encomials ; Experiment 116 ; Zest

Visual poetry ; Computer texts ; .... and by islands I mean paragraphs ; The seeker ; i've never picked a protected flower ; Compasses ; Access without ; Flows ; Seedlings_: walk in time

Prose ; Markov models and linguistic theory ; Mark v. Shaney ; Travesty 291 ; Self portrait(s) [as other(s)] ; Re-writing Freud ; Pigs 297 ; Cut up: the great escape 2012 ; The fundamental questions ; Reagan library ; Monologue ; Hierarchical neural story generation ; Common is that they ; Hallucinate this!

Reporting ; PROTEUS ; MUMBLE ; TEXT ; Penman ; RAREAS ; PROUST ; SCIgen ; StatsMonkey ; QuakeBot ; Wordsmith ; Wings over Kansas ; Brute force manifesto ; Beta writer 0.7 ; GPT-2, Ovid's unicorn ; Arria NLG ; The book of Veles

Rhetoric, oratory, and lectures ; PAULINE ; Anarchy ; Speeches ; Rhetorica ; Political speech generation ; Cementing the United States-Israel AI partnership

Sentences ; Stochastic texts ; Random generation of English sentences ; Automatic sentence generation ; Nitrogen ; Sentence generator for the assessment of reading speed

Storytelling ; Fairy tale generator ; Little grey rabbit stories ; Novel writer ; TALE-SPIN ; MELL ; GESTER ; DAYDREAMER ; TAILOR ; MINSTREL ; Grandmother ; BRUTUS ; FABULIST ; Slant ; MEXICA ; Sheldon county ; Dwarf Fortress legends

Text and image ; Describing complex charts in natural language ; Seraphs ; no people ; SemStyle ; The library of nonhuman books ; GPT paintings

Tweets and microblogging ; Willy shakes ; Metaphor-a-minute! ; Walt "FML" Whitman ; Jorge Borges ; Pizza clones ; I AM THAT I AM ; Tiny star field ; Two headlines ; Magic realism bot ; censusAmericans ; Ernest Hemingwords ; Rainbot ; TinyProtests ; genderbot / gender of the day

Words ; Petit livre de nombres au hasard ; Creative naming ; The appearance of the letters of the Hollywood sign in the smog and at a distance ; non-words ; Lyre's dictionary ; Apotropaic variations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 22, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Output

ISBN:

0262380854

9780262380843

0262380846

9780262380850

OCLC:

1428040663

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license