Comments on: Chomskybot: Almost Intelligible Gibberish

By: John Lawler

John Lawler — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:39:00 +0000

For the record (not that anybody is reading this seven months later), I am the producer of the Chomskybot, but I am not responsible for, and do not make the presupposition conveyed by, the first phrase in the sentence printed above:

“But unlike Chomsky’s actual work,
Chomskybot’s text is devoid of meaning.”

The Chomskybot’s text is indeed devoid of meaning, but I have nothing else to say about Chomsky’s actual work.

The Chomskybot says all that I care to about that.

By: Dr. Zoltan!

Dr. Zoltan! — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:38:12 +0000

Yeah! Chomsky is almost as bad as Peter Lamborn Wilson. Try listening to a lecture by THAT guy.

-Dr. Zoltan!

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:10:02 +0000

I work in academic publishing, journals to be exact, and I used to work on a journal that has Chomsky on the editorial board. Don’t know how active he is, but I still felt important. :-P

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:00:48 +0000

“But unlike Chomsky’s actual work, Chomskybot’s text is devoid of meaning.”

I suppose we’ll have to agree to disagree about Chomsky’s work having meaning.

By: sheik's peer

sheik's peer — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:39:47 +0000

I love this! Can 1000 Chomskybots write a Chomskysbot “Hamlet”? Or maybe a Chomskybot Hollywood script? :)

Chomskybot Blake
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Chomskybot Haiku
Chomskybot Marketing
Chomskybot Infomercials
Chomskybot David Attenborough
Chomskybot News Anchors
Chomskybot eecummings
Chomskybot Greenspeak
Chomskybot Televangelism
Chomskybot Xenuspeak
Chomskybot Rock Lyrics
Chomskybot Civil Service Speak
Chomskybot ….

By: DaviMack

DaviMack — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:18:31 +0000

This is fabulous! I’m doing a Master’s in Philosophy right now, coming from an English / Computer Science background – reading the generated gibberish closely resembles the stuff I’ve had to read for Philosophy, and is about as intelligible! Awesome!

By: n2y2

n2y2 — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:35:07 +0000

That reminds me of the fake research paper that got accepted to a computer science conference about 3 years ago.

A trio of MIT students developed a research paper generator the creates what they call “context-free grammar.” In an Emperor’s-New-Clothes moment, none of the reviews would admit that they had no idea what the paper was about. So, they invited the ‘authors’ to deliver an address about “Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy.”

I don’t know if I should be scared that most research papers are so opaque that this is possible or frightened that a group of top scientific minds could be so easily duped.

Read all about it in the link I provided with my name.