An anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created long before ChatGPT. The discussion of computer-generated text has recently reached a fever pitch but largely omits the long history of work in this area--text generation, as it happens, was not invented yesterday in Silicon Valley. This anthology,
Output, thoughtfully selected, introduced, and edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort, aims to correct that omission by gathering seven decades of English-language texts produced by generation systems and software. The outputs span many different types of creative writing and include text generated by research systems, along with reports and utilitarian texts, representing many general advances and experiments in text generation.
Output is first and foremost a collection of outputs to be encountered by readers. In addition to an overall introduction, each of the excerpts is introduced individually and organized by fine-grain genre including conversations, humor, letters, poetry, prose, and sentences. Bibliographic references allow readers to learn more about outputs and systems that intrigue them. Although
Output could serve as a reference book, it is designed to be readable and to be read. Purposefully excluded are human-computer collaborations that were conceptually defined but not implemented as a computer system.
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一本涵蓋七十年電腦生成系統英語輸出的選集，記錄了機器寫作文本的悠久歷史，這些文本的創作早於 ChatGPT 的出現。
對於電腦生成文本的討論最近達到了高峰，但大多數卻忽略了這一領域的悠久歷史——事實上，文本生成並不是在矽谷昨天才被發明的。這本選集《Output》，由 Lillian-Yvonne Bertram 和 Nick Montfort 精心挑選、介紹和編輯，旨在彌補這一遺漏，匯集了七十年來由生成系統和軟體產生的英語文本。這些輸出涵蓋了多種不同類型的創意寫作，包括由研究系統生成的文本，以及報告和實用文本，代表了文本生成領域的許多一般性進展和實驗。
《Output》首先是一個供讀者接觸的輸出集。除了整體介紹外，每個摘錄都會單獨介紹，並根據細緻的類別進行組織，包括對話、幽默、信件、詩歌、散文和句子。書目參考使讀者能夠進一步了解他們感興趣的輸出和系統。雖然《Output》可以作為參考書籍，但它的設計旨在讓人易讀且值得閱讀。故意排除了那些在概念上被定義但未實施為電腦系統的人機協作。
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Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of
Travesty Generator, a book of computational poetry that was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry, and several other poetry books. They direct the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of Maryland.
Nick Montfort is a poet and artist who uses computation as his medium. His MIT Press publications range from
The New Media Reader (coedited) and
Twisty Little Passages to, most recently,
The Future and the second edition of
Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities. He is Professor of Digital Media at MIT and Principal Investigator in the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, Norway.
莉莉安-伊冯娜·伯特蘭是《Travesty Generator》的作者，這本計算詩歌的書籍曾入圍2020年全國圖書獎詩歌類的長名單，並且還有其他幾本詩集。他們目前擔任馬里蘭大學創意寫作碩士課程的主任。
尼克·蒙特福特是一位詩人和藝術家，他以計算作為媒介。他在麻省理工學院出版社的出版作品包括《The New Media Reader》（共同編輯）和《Twisty Little Passages》，以及最近的《The Future》和《Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities》的第二版。他是麻省理工學院數位媒體的教授，也是挪威卑爾根大學數位敘事中心的首席研究員。
