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Inspiring literary spam is here

Inspiring literary spam is here

Who said “AI” ain’t good for naught? It turns out, there be a use case! In the recent months, I started receiving more and more digital spam in me inbox. But this time around, it’s spam with flavor. A twist. Lots of emails labeled “a powerful and inspiring catch phrase” + “title of one of my books”. These would be all styled in a cutesy (yet highly repetitive) way so as to supposedly grab my attention, but if you have more than a quarter of a mashed potato in your head, you can easily see this is pure computer-generated pseudo-marketing dross.

Teaser
Credits: Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0.

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I’m going to write a book on artificial intelligence, oh oh

I’m going to write a book on artificial intelligence, oh oh

So, I’m going to board the hype train. But not as a passenger. As the driver! Think about it. Who better to write a book on AI than a diehard curmudgeonly tech-savvy skeptic who treats this whole thing as one big conditioning experiment? Exactly. No one. Now, the topic. Ethics, of course. What else is there.

Matrix
A screenshot from the cmatrix program in Linux. Not quite AI, but dramatic enough.

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