In the 1970s, science fiction writer JG Ballard was intrigued by the growing capabilities of computers – so used one to compose poems. They were a first step on the road to ChatGPT. The novelist and ...

If there was one thing that fascinated novelist and science-fiction author James Graham Ballard, it was the capabilities of computers back in the 1970s. At the time, Mr Ballard decided to use computer ...

Whether these little computer-generated texts are stories, novels or poems is unclear and probably is a secondary issue to the automatic production of culture on display here. Ballard seems to have ...