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Chomskybot: Almost Intelligible Gibberish

mentalfloss.com » 2008 » July » 3rd » Chomskybot: Almost Intelligible Gibberish

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Chomskybot is a web-hosted program that generates text which appears similar to (and based on) the famously hard-to-follow linguistic work of Noam Chomsky. But unlike Chomsky’s actual work, Chomskybot’s text is devoid of meaning. Circling back on itself, piling modifiers on terms, and stretching the limits of human attention, Chomskybot generates a stream of text that’s almost meaningful — and … Continue Reading »

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