Just This Once: A Novel Written by a Computer Programmed to Think Like the World’s Bestselling Author

Scott French

1993

Book

Birch Lane Press / Carol Publishing Group, Secaucus, New Jersey
Hardback with dust jacket
viii, 295 pages

Description

Scott French, a self-taught programmer in Foster City, California, produced this 1993 novel with an artificial-intelligence program that he ran on a Macintosh IIcx and named Hal, after the computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey. He fed it two novels by Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls and Once Is Not Enough, and wrote several thousand rules describing his characters.

Related Works

Art Futura 93: Vida Artificial / Artificial Life, 1993

Art Futura 93: Vida Artificial / Artificial Life Book

Algorithmus und Kunst: »Die präzisen Vergnügen« by Frieder Nake, 1993

Algorithmus und Kunst: »Die präzisen Vergnügen« Book

Art of the Electronic Age by Frank Popper, 1993

Art of the Electronic Age Book

The Art of Computer Designing: A Black and White Approach by Osamu Sato, 1993

The Art of Computer Designing: A Black and White Approach Book

Untitled by Sture Johannesson, 1993

Untitled Print

Images Du Futur Poster by Lillian Feldman Schwartz, 1993

Images Du Futur Poster Print

Untitled by Wolfgang Kiwus, 1993

Untitled Plotter

Recreational Mathematics by Ben Francis Laposky, 1961

Recreational Mathematics Book

Top ↑