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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Darwinian poetry

"Ok, here's the idea: starting with a whole bunch (specifically 1,000) randomly generated groups of words (our "poems"), we are going to subject them to a form of natural selection, killing off the "bad" ones and breeding the "good" ones with each other. If enough generations go by, and if the gene pool is rich enough, we should eventually start to see interesting poems emerge," says the site (here). The idea is being discussed at Slashdot (which is where I got the link).

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