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From: gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith)
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Subject: Italo Calvino AI project
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Date: Fri, 2-May-86 00:44:05 EDT
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   I must apologize to Bandy for posting a genuine rumor to net.rumor, but
this is a real rumor I found on net.followup:

>I have it on good authority (although second-hand) that an entire
>*novel* was generated by computer. It was the result of a research
>project which aimed to "parameterize" an author's writing style. The
>study concentrated primarily on one author, Italo Calvino, and I have
>heard that the novel, "If on a winter's night a traveller", was actually
>published and marketed with Calvino's blessing.
[Jack Orenstein]

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