Discovered via Calishat Snaps: Monkeys.zip. From the About page: “Monkeys.zip, aka The Monkey Project, is a live, crowdsourced experiment based on the Infinite Monkey Theorem. If you haven’t heard of the Infinite Monkey Theorem, it goes something like this: Infinite Monkeys on Infinite Typewriters will eventually write all the works of Shakespeare. It’s a thought experiment that’s been […]

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“It is not plausible that, even with improved typing speeds or an increase in chimpanzee populations, monkey labour will ever be a viable tool for developing non-trivial written works,”

#infiniteMonkeys

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c748kmvwyv9o

'Infinite monkey theorem' challenged by Australian mathematicians

Australian researchers have poked holes in an old thought-experiment known as the "infinite monkey theorem".

BBC News

“It is not plausible that, even with improved typing speeds or an increase in chimpanzee populations, monkey labour will ever be a viable tool for developing non-trivial written works.”

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A transparent attempt at an IgNobel.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c748kmvwyv9o

#Shakespeare #Statistics #Randomness #InfiniteMonkeyTheorem #InfiniteMonkeys

'Infinite monkey theorem' challenged by Australian mathematicians

Australian researchers have poked holes in an old thought-experiment known as the "infinite monkey theorem".

BBC News
'Infinite monkey theorem' challenged by Australian mathematicians

Australian researchers have poked holes in an old thought-experiment known as the "infinite monkey theorem".

BBC News
I searched for #Infinitemonkeys on Mastodon and found nothing. I guess they're still working on the infinite part. Or maybe they just prefer Twitter.
#AI #artificialintelligence can reproduce the work of artists in the same way as #infinitemonkeys on typewriters can reproduce the works of Shakespeare. Although these days they’d probably use laptops running MS Word and most of the period English would be autocorrected.