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Racter: Computer Program, Artificial Intelligence -

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2026-03-17
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Racter was an artificial intelligence computer program that generated English language prose at random. The name of the program is short for raconteur. The sophistication claimed for the program was likely exaggerated, as could be seen by investigation of the template system of text generation. Racter was written by William Chamberlain and Thomas Etter. The existe ... Full description

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Racter was an artificial intelligence computer program that generated English language prose at random. The name of the program is short for raconteur. The sophistication claimed for the program was likely exaggerated, as could be seen by investigation of the template system of text generation. Racter was written by William Chamberlain and Thomas Etter. The existence of the program was revealed in 1983 in a book called The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed (ISBN 0-446-38051-2), which was described as being composed entirely by the program. According to Chamberlain's introduction to the book, the program apparently ran on a CP/M machine; it was written in "compiled BASIC on a Z80 micro with 64K of RAM." This version, the program that allegedly wrote the book, was not released to the general public.

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Publisher OmniScriptum
Release year 2026
Cover type Softcover
EAN 9786131168598
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