La malgranda feneko volas dormetiMar 3, 2023
Does anyone remember a bit of software passed around on BBSs in the late 80s or sometime 90s called Babel (or babble or similar) possibly described as "artificial insanity" which had a small built in library of text (tv themes, children's book excerpts, etc) as well a letting the user insert text, and then do Markov Chain text generation based on one or more of the sources? "50% tv themes, 25% Dick and Jane, 25% my text file"
Show threadLa malgranda feneko volas dormeti
Various stuff relating to chatgpt and other such recent AI hype made me remember playing with this program on one of our family's old computers. Maybe the PC XT or the 386 that replaced it later in the 90s.
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Mar 3, 2023 at 4:00amWeb
Show threadAustin Dern, Dean of CoatisMar 3, 2023
@LilFluff I have a dim recollection of it. I remember briefly thinking it might be fun to train a Markov Chain generator on Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan fiction and then set it to "automatically" riff on Usenet spam. But the work of that didn't seem fun enough to actually do and, I mean, you'd read Markov Chain stories, the fun of them wears off fast. Be worse with the sort of tiny corpus that MiSTer Markov could possibly train on.