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Kurzweil Gets A Patent For Poetic Software

Posted by timothy on from the rhymin'-and-stealin' dept.

theodp writes "Ray Kurzweil, inventor of the Kurzweil Reading Machine for the blind, has developed what he calls a cybernetic poet, software that allows a computer to create poetry by imitating but not plagiarizing the styles and vocabularies of human poets. A sample: 'Sashay down the page...through the lioness...nestled in my soul.' Impressed? The USPTO, who sponsored the Independent Inventors Conference Mr. Kurzweil spoke at on Nov. 17, seems to be. On Nov. 11, Ray Kurzweil received U.S. Patent No. 6,647,395 for Poet Personalities."

2 of 242 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Outdated by shaitand · · Score: 0, Troll

    I agree, windows is so yesterday. Any software which runs only runs on windows must be outdated. Everyone knows that modern software runs on modern platforms like Linux, BSD, and/or MacOSX

  2. Impressed? by Drakker · · Score: 0, Troll

    No. :)