The Computer-Gernerated Novel

by David Cope

This book describes in detail the manner in which the author, over the past seven years, has produced an algorithm that can generate readable and credible novels. As he has with music and visual art previously, this book delves into the history, process, and results of the ten novels already produced and available from Kindle/Amazon.

226 pages, Paperback

Published April 16, 2020

About the author

David “Dave” Cope was an American author, composer, scientist, and Dickerson Emeriti Professor of Music at UC Santa Cruz. His primary area of research involved artificial intelligence and music; he wrote programs and algorithms that can analyze existing music and create new compositions in the style of the original input music. He taught the groundbreaking summer workshop in Workshop in Algorithmic Computer Music (WACM) that was open to the public as well as a general education course entitled Artificial Intelligence and Music for enrolled UCSC students. Cope was also co-founder and CTO Emeritus of Recombinant Inc., a music technology company.

Reviews

[Shhhhh Ahhhhh · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a bit disappointing. On it's own, it's not a bad book. I don't like the amount of it that was pasted text from other sources but I understand their inclusion. Where I am disappointed here is that the method the author uses seems like a clear copy-paste from his earlier method of music composition. I expected something more rigorous, but I'd be lying if I said this isn't something similar to what I expected.