Thursday, February 26, 2009

science people

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

really intersting group specialising in context free grammer (i.e. speaking correctly without saying anything - first pioneered by politicians)

you have to read the site to ubderstand what they're doing, it's a really interesting field. on one hand it's funny on the other it's an important critique in the way we interpret and consume information, as regards to source, and rhetoric.
in some ways you could see this being applied to AI in that it is strangely human thing to chat about nowt.
i'm looking into it as the main source fro the artist statements for "goldfish" a collaborative exhibition i'm doing with Pete Shadbolt in April. Artist statements are invariably wank. but annoying necessary, so we thought we'd let a computer do it (or hopefully the goldfish themselves)

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