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The Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed - October 22, 1984

Oct 22, 2021

Its publisher claimed it was the first book written by an artificial intelligence.  The truth was a little bit more nuanced than that.  Data's cat poetry, it wasn't.  Learn the strange story of The Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed.

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