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Kurzweil Gets A Patent For Poetic Software

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."

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  1. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Great, now why don't you go get a patent for something people actually want?

    FP BIATCH!

  2. Heh heh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I always knew poetry was a buch of BS =)

  3. Any by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    chicks in here?

  4. Re:Cock sucking Howto [Supplementary Article] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I also want to add that adding a nice line of crazy glue on your penis, will shut the bitch up.

  5. Re:Outdated by shaitand · · Score: 0, Troll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 Any software which runs only runs on windows must be outdated.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

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

    No. :)

  7. EAT MY COCK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    YOU DIRTY FUCKERS!

  8. BSD poetry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll



    flask of ripe urine
    pressed to dead bsd lips
    bsd drink up

  9. Re:Cock sucking Howto [Supplementary Article] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater
    Had a wife, loved to beat her
    Smacked her twice across the head
    Fucked her ass and went to bed

    Now thats fucking poetry.

    Andrew 'Dice Man' Clay

    He's a motherfucking poet.

  10. Re:Maybe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am not a lawyer (but I am in law school)?

  11. Re:Haiku Night on Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Twinkle Twinkle little star
    Will she blow me in the car
    Because I bought her dinner, she had fun
    Now my balls are boiling and I'd like to cum


    Andrew Clay
    Probably the nations greatest poet.

  12. Re:And looking at it even closer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You've got to prefer a Dice Man verse though:

    Littly Miss Muffet
    Sat on a tuffet
    Eating her curds and whey
    Along came a spider,
    Sat down beside her, And said, "Hey, what's in the bowl, bitch?"

  13. Re:poem of the day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe
    Suck my dick and swallow slow

  14. Re:There isn't enough classic poetry out there? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Little Timmy Horner,
    Sat in the corner,
    Dredging up up really shit articles.