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From: dmc@videovax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: AI Project Information Request
Message-ID: <4294@videovax.Tek.COM>
Date: Sun, 22-Mar-87 16:14:25 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 22 16:14:25 1987
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Reply-To: dmc@videovax.Tek.COM (Donald M. Craig)
Organization: Tektronix Television Systems, Beaverton, Oregon
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Well, I'm probably over reacting to what will end up being
nothing more than a spelling checker, but I find the thought
of having creative writing graded by a computer program appalling.
It's particularly pernicious in the public school system,
where penalties for failure to conform to some computer
program's judgement of style and content are brought to bear.

The best and most universal writing is about the human condition.
What does a computer program (or indeed its artificially
intelligent author) know about that?  What would it do with...
James Joyce? William S. Burroughs? Anthony Burgess? Ogden Nash? 

What would happen to literary experiment?
Would there be an image processing version that graded Picasso?

It's bad enough that some smartass robot comes up to me at
trade shows pedalling product, or some auto-dialer phones
me while I'm in the shower to sell carpet cleaner, but
these uppity machines I can be rude to and ignore.  The one
that's marking my school essays I cannot.

In law I have the right to be judged by a jury of my peers.
In school I demand that same right.  I will NOT be judged by
a machine.

Yours for a better tomorrow,

Don Craig
Whose opinions are his own.
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Don Craig			dmc@videovax.Tek.COM
Tektronix Television Systems	... tektronix!videovax!dmc