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by denton-scratch 705 days ago
> generate a pretty good poem about my cat

I do not consider a text generator to be the pinnacle of "great software", regardless of how well the code was written. I don't think "meh" is the wrong word.

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Exactly my point! A statistical text generator trained a vast majority of the available content on the Internet and is able to understand natural language commands to generate content on any available subject is bloody amazing.

Literally five minutes after this absolutely crazy-ass technology was released to the world, it's already the baseline.