NYT - Artificial Intelligence / Want to read something really bizarre

[DoYouEverWonder]

This has got to be one of the oddiest articles I have ever read in the NYT. I don't know what they're smoking in that building but I just wish they would share.

August 18, 2005

WHEN we hear grumbling coming from the depths of our computer, we know that Ars Magna, the software program that always answers in anagrams, is awake and worrying.

This software sometimes can seem opinionated. Lately, for instance, it speaks happily of the Statue of Liberty as "built to stay free," but when it hears the name George W. Bush, it's likely to cry, "He grew bogus!" Ars is still angry about that C.I.A. leak.

So, Ars, it all began when Karl Rove, as he tells it, did not say the name of Valerie Plame. What do you think he was trying to do when he didn't name her?

Reveal. Impale.

Well, then, what did he achieve by not naming Valerie Wilson?

Orwellian vise.

But Mr. Rove is President Bush's key political advisor. Can't we depend on him to be truthful?

Leaky; solicit avid pro.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/18/opinion/18morton.html

[acmejack]

1. Artificial stupidity?

nt

[bryant69]

2. Well it's the opinion page

Funny enough, I guess. Still, seems kind of banal.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. I was wondering how many column inches did they waste

printing this nonsense and how much did that space cost? Like rent in NYC, space in the NYT's is not cheap.