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} Ah, Mr. Rogets. I hadn't pondered that AI attempt in years.
} For those of you that didn't have satellite dishes in 1972,
} Mr. Rogets was an attempt to use early AI programs to upgrade
} the educational level of children's TV. A Noble Goal. Didn't
} work, and you'll soon see why. BUT it was the precursor to
} successful kids' educational shows like Sesame St. and All of
} My Children.
}
} Here's how it worked.
}
} Original text in:
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} It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood,
} A beautiful day for a neighbor.
} Would you be mine,
} Could you be mine,
} Won't you be my neighbor?
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}
} Then this type of stuff would come out:
}
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} It's a(n) exquisite, attractive, handsome, becoming, shapely,
} engaging, captivating, bewitching unit of time equal to twenty-four
} hours, or the time it takes the earth to rotate once on its axis
} in the vicinity, community, district, area.
}
} A(n) excellent, superior, magnificent, first-rate, first-class, superb,
} fine period between two successive midnights in the quarter, locality,
} or precinct.
}
} Would the person or persons being addressed be a deep hole or system of
} holes made in the earth, from which mineral substances such as gold,
} coal, or precious stones are extracted i.e. a(n) quarry, colliery,
} excavation, well, pit, or tunnel,
}
} Could the person or persons being addressed be a deep hole or system of
} holes made in the earth, from which mineral substances such as gold,
} coal, or precious stones are extracted i.e. a(n) quarry, colliery,
} excavation, well, pit, or tunnel,
}
} Won't the person or persons being addressed be a fellow human.
} who demonstrates kindness and friendship toward others?
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}
} It just took too much de-bugging by hand to be commercially viable.
}
} You owe the Oracle a sweater.
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