Also (mind the year this is from!): — Can you teach a computer to write poetry? — If you can teach it--yes, there's nothing easier. One of the things is that

Also (mind the year this is from!): — Can you teach a computer to write poetry? — If you can teach it--yes, there's nothing easier. One of the things is that you could do, for example, you could simply give it a collection of poems or prose or whatever you have, and then provide a program which selects pieces from these, either individual words, individual phrases, individual passages, and so on, and merges them together according to some criterion, which you would then write into the program, and also with a certain element of chance. Usually, you know, you'd say, "Well, you want to pick this sometimes, that sometimes." Yes, you can write it, but you raise the question, what would be the point?