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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I now have an explanation for that video which enraged the Presbyterian world and caused the attack on the American Embassy: it was written by an AI. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Or perhaps not, but I have seen videos written by humans weirder and dumber than this one:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://singularityhub.com/2016/05/24/an-ai-wrote-this-short-film-and-its-surprisingly-entertaining/">http://singularityhub.com/2016/05/24/an-ai-wrote-this-short-film-and-its-surprisingly-entertaining/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Those of you who played computer chess in the 1970s know how bad it was and how some of its moves were so absurd it would leave you howling with derisive laughter. The programmers failed to write an embarrassment module and a hopelessness module into their software. But even in those benighted times, the computer software could beat some humans, assuming the humans were stoned and already sucked anyway.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So now, we have computer-generated movie scripts. For now, Aaron Sorkin can rest with confidence that unemployment is not a near-term threat. But chess software improved. It was playing a reasonable game by the mid 1980s, and was getting good by 1990. Deep Blue beat Kasparov at his peak in 1997.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So, will computers ever write a good movie script?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>