Mechanical intelligence

Automatic Text generation or music — strictly speaking, not so today's achievement. Experiments with the algorithms, capable to make verses, polyphonic musical compositions and even theological conclusions began very much long before emergence of electronic computers. These attempts to force the callous device to think and create not always seem well-founded, sometimes they were simply entertainment, sometimes — satire, and sometimes — at all fiction. And still they as if any bulky ancient arithmometer, are allocated with a peculiar museum charm and simply...