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      Resuscitating a Dead Rabbit

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      Proceedings of EVA London 2020 (EVA 2020)
      AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination
      6th July – 9th July 2020
      Computer, Literature, Reprogramming, A.I. fiction
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            This paper is about the computer-generated Little Grey Rabbit stories of Professor Eric Mendoza. This (and its sister-work, High Entropy Essays) dates from the early 1960s and is one of the first examples of a fiction-writing computer program. The programming is innovative for its time and still has value as an approach to the challenge of creating literature using a computer. This approach is contrasted with contemporary AI methods of text generation.

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            Conference
            July 2020
            July 2020
            : 249-254
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            [0001]Artist and writer

            London, UK
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            10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.45
            9c64eab6-edb4-434b-8db3-24ff720123f6
            © Clements. Published by BCS Learning & Development Ltd. Proceedings of EVA London 2020

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            Proceedings of EVA London 2020
            EVA 2020
            30
            London
            6th July – 9th July 2020
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination
            History
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

            Self URI (article page): https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.45
            Self URI (journal page): https://ewic.bcs.org/
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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            A.I. fiction,Computer,Literature,Reprogramming

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