How computers generated text historically, and it because a reference to modern LLMs.

How computers manipulate language to generate text

There is a book—Output, published by The MIT Press, and written by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort. The book is an anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems, introducing us to the fascinating history of machine-written texts by the computers. Nick Montfort wrote an essay on The MIT Press sharing interesting examples from the book—to help us understand …

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