About 20 years ago, I heard that someone had written a computer program that wrote "Bruce Springsteen" songs.
I remember thinking that, not only would I love to hear those songs, I would have paid good money just to read the code of the program.
Since then, I've thought about writing a program that does country songs. he algorithm would be something like:
if x='lonesome' then y = 'my wife done left me'.
That program would be quite difficult to design.
On the other hand, the only headline program I know works quite simply. It's the program the Yellow Pages seems to use which creates a choice of 2 headlines.
There are 2 input variables:
your product
your business name
And the headlines it produces are:
1: '(Your business name)'
2: 'Number 1 for (your product)'
Then, when neither of those headlines pulls, they tell you the problem is that you need a bigger ad (with colour).
Ker-ching!!
Steve
