IP: Cybernetic Poet: Ray Kurzweil

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 18:56:55 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi () statistik uni-dortmund de>
> To: Richard Dooling <dooling () home com>
> cc: "Prof. David Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: Cybernetic Poet: Ray Kurzweil
>
> Dear Rick,
>
> I have found during my cyberexplorations via HyperText Kitchen..that Ray
> Kurzweil has created an interactive, intelligent software suite designed
> to act as a Poet's assistant. Ray Kurzweil's "Cybernetic Poet" is now
> available as Free download from Kurzweil's Cyberart Technologies Inc..at
> <http://www.kurzweilcyberart.com> [please visit this site, WORTH to visit]
>
> According to Kurzweil, "With a little cyberhelp anyone can write creative
> adaptations based on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's half-rhymes, William
> Butler Yeat's Alliterations; just to name a few," said Kurzweil..--Just
> amazing and wonderful..He has also written a Poem, on "The Age of
> Intelligent Machines: A (kind of) Turing Test"
>
> I hope, he has also discussed his Cybernetic Poetic philosophy in his
> latest book.
>
> Sincerely yours
> Arun Tripathi