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lebuffon · 2020-08-12 · Original thread
One might say that the seminal work was:

https://www.amazon.ca/Policemans-Beard-Half-Constructed/dp/0...

Generated by Ractor a not very sophisticated "chatterbot" in 1984.

Interesting to see the progress in less than 40 years.

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