Resuscitating a Dead Rabbit

Abstract

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.

Contributors

Wayne Clements

Conference

Publication date: July 2020

Publication date (Print): July 2020

Pages: 249-254

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Artist and writer

London, UK

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.45

Copyright statement: © Clements. Published by BCS Learning & Development Ltd. Proceedings of EVA London 2020

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2020

Conference acronym: EVA 2020

Conference number: 30

Conference location: London

Conference date: 6th July – 9th July 2020

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination

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Product Information: 1477-9358BCS Learning & Development

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing