2026-09-06 16:50 UTC
@technicaladept@techhub.social No (it's only a very short story). And yes, Clarke would have read 1984.
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@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz 2026-09-06 17:12
@TimWardCam@c.im @technicaladept@techhub.social I grew up on his stories and I loved them, but his doesn't give Clarke precedent. A friend of mine was generating text with Hidden Markov Models a couple years before that. (They need to be trained on a corpus first) And my friend wasn't first, either, he had read about others doing the same. I'm not sure who was earliest. Heuristic: if "word processor" is in the title, it probably wasn't first with a computer algorithm.