The World (According to Computers)

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The World (According to Computers)

What computers "know" about common objects based on the top 100 books on Project Gutenberg and some Wikipedia entries.

Inspired by the book Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgard in which he writes about a different object each day (for his unborn daughter in order to share the world with her), I decided to generate a novel using this same structure but from the computer’s perspective. With this exercise, I hoped to explore the following questions: what have computers learned about the world? And what would computers tell us about the world if we asked them about it in 2019?

You can read more about the process as well as more reflections in my repository.

Here are some other links!

Plain text file.

A pdf version of the output

Python code is here