AnonTechie writes:
"The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer-generated nonsense.
Over the past two years, computer scientist Cyril Labbe of Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, has catalogued computer-generated papers that made it into more than 30 published conference proceedings between 2008 and 2013. Sixteen appeared in publications by Springer, which is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, and more than 100 were published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), based in New York. Both publishers, which were privately informed by Labbe, say that they are now removing the papers.
(Score: 3) by gishzida on Monday March 03 2014, @10:05PM
I had nothing to do with the parent post but everything to do with this: http://markovswisdom.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com]
That said, for all the talk of "the [coming real soon now, the new improved] A.I. singularity" computers are still stupid. How will we know they are smart? When they learn where to buy their term papers.
(Score: 3, Funny) by dotdotdot on Monday March 03 2014, @10:13PM
You can't fool me. There is no way a computer could come up with this ...
(Score: 2, Informative) by gishzida on Monday March 03 2014, @10:59PM
The input text steams that were used for that particular output run were:
"the book of reminders" [an as yet unpublished book of quotations gleaned from my years of endeavors at the advanced school of hard knocks] and a stream of Lewis Carroll's writings...
But among the quotes in the book of reminders is:
"Magic is the ability to suspend our disbelief: Play with a cat. Watch a child. Look in the Mirror. Magic is REAL."
And a quote about spices: "Always set aside a portion of you income for spices. Spices can make even the dullest life liveable."
Hench the Markov Wisdom of "Always set aside a cat" is likely to be true.
Thanks for reading.
(Score: 1) by theluggage on Tuesday March 04 2014, @12:10AM
Wow - that's sophisticated.
I just plugged the output of a "lorem ipsum" utility [littleipsum.com] into Google Translate. And I got modded +5! so just think what could be achieved with a really sophisticated posting generator.
Come to think of it... hello...? is there actually anybody out there?
(Score: 1) by gishzida on Tuesday March 04 2014, @12:54AM
Who do you think is doing the moderation? It's what you get for taking one of those funny colored capsules they talk about in the movies. You never know where you'll wake up.
(Score: 1) by Taibhsear on Tuesday March 04 2014, @06:22PM
Usually, the local drunk tank.