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Wide of public garden and monument dedicated to Pushkin 2. Mid of monument3. Close of bas-relief showing Pushkin4. Wide of tourists standing next to the monument5. Mid of man taking picture6....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eSt Petersburg, Russia - 29 December, 2007\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of public garden and monument dedicated to Pushkin \u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid of monument\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close of bas-relief showing Pushkin\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of tourists standing next to the monument\u003cbr/\u003e5. Mid of man taking picture\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of bookstore exteriors\u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid of store sign\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide of bookstore interior\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close of books by famous Russian authors\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid of customers looking at books\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close of hand putting book on shelf\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of editor's office\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close of hands on keyboard\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of editor receiving a draft for a new book cover\u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid of cover design\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close of PC Writer 1.0 sign\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Aleksandr Prokopovich, publisher \u003cbr/\u003e\"In fact it (the book) is a sort of simulator and plot generator, plus we provided lexical work with the help of (PC) programme. Obviously without human assistance nothing would have happened. Moreover, the text that we got would not have been at all interesting had it not been worked on by human hand. It is because the (PC) programme proposes things but a human being is putting them into reality\". \u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide of the book's layout\u003cbr/\u003e19. Close of book's page entitled as 'The Real Love. The first book composed by artificial intellect. The most perfect novel'\u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide of city street exteriors\u003cbr/\u003e21. Mid of writer reading artificial novel\u003cbr/\u003e22. Close of man's face\u003cbr/\u003e23. Close of book's page\u003cbr/\u003e24. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vladimir Orlov, writer\u003cbr/\u003e\"I am reading it and realise that it is trivial. I will not read the whole thing. For example, if I take a normal book and start to read a couple of paragraphs I may feel an energy, a spirit in it, a quality you can't describe. It's no accident the Gospel says that First was the Word and the Word was God. There is no God here. It is a sort of a text, but it is a dead text.\"\u003cbr/\u003e25. Mid of man at computer\u003cbr/\u003e26. Close of hand typing\u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Ilya Stogoff, popular writer\u003cbr/\u003e\"The level of ability among modern Russian writers is about the same as what schoolboys write on toilet walls. There are no linguistic discoveries to be had. There's not the slightest attempt at plot development. It is very simplistic. Sentences do not contain even a shred of artistic value. The only writers worse then modern-day Russians are from countries in Africa, where written literature is making its first steps\".\u003cbr/\u003e28. Mid of customer at a book shelf\u003cbr/\u003e29. Close of book volumes\u003cbr/\u003e30. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Nikolai Agafonov, reader\u003cbr/\u003e\"As a PC technician, I will be very pleased to see what comes out of it. It is like an artificial intellect. I am very interested in it. It will be good to see just what a PC is capable of.\"\u003cbr/\u003e31. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Olga Stepanova, reader\u003cbr/\u003e\"There's enough rubbish on the shelves as it is. It is a shame to waste time reading what has been written by a machine. The only one result of this experiment may be that there will be less poorly written books by humans.\"\u003cbr/\u003e32. Mid of books on shelf\u003cbr/\u003e33. Mid of customer \u003cbr/\u003e34. Close of hand thumbing book\u003cbr/\u003eThe first novel entirely written by a computer is about to hit Russian bookstores this week.\u003cbr/\u003eAlready its publisher is touting it as the book which will turn the literary world upside down. \u003cbr/\u003eA novel written by a Personal Computer in Russia is causing a stir among many of the country's established writers.\u003cbr/\u003eWritten in St Petersburg, the book is named 'True Love' and is a variation on Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina'.\u003cbr/\u003eFor generations St Petersburg, once the capital of Tsarist Russia, has been at the heart of the country's cultural establishment.\u003cbr/\u003eBoth Alexander Pushkin and Fyodor Dostoevsky lived and set their masterpieces in St Petersburg.\u003cbr/\u003ePushkin also died here, fatally wounded in a duel with his wife's alleged lover. \u003cbr/\u003eA statue now stands where the writer fell. \u003cbr/\u003eTo this day the classics still have pride of place on the shelves of the city's bookstores.\u003cbr/\u003eBut they now vie with the cheap thrillers and romances which have sprung up since the fall of communism.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd this month a new author will appear in the shops. \u003cbr/\u003eBut this book is the work of a computer programme, created by a team of IT specialists and language experts. \u003cbr/\u003eWhile the programme remains a secret, the specialists who created it say it works according to a simple algorithm. \u003cbr/\u003eThis so-called RoboAuthor has been brought up in the best traditions of Russian and foreign literature. \u003cbr/\u003eTolstoy's 'Anna Karenina' and another 17 famous literary works were all loaded into the programme, and within 72 hours the computer started to produce its novel about true love. \u003cbr/\u003eEight months later the novel was finished.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's a new take on 'Anna Karenina' written in the style of contemporary Japanese author Haruki Murakami. \u003cbr/\u003eIt features the book's same heroes but is set on an uninhabited island. \u003cbr/\u003eHowever the book wasn't written entirely without the help of humans. \u003cbr/\u003eThe final text was edited by language experts.\u003cbr/\u003eThe publisher Alexander Prokopovich says that while the novel may not please the purists, the results are excellent and he expects it to be a bestseller. \u003cbr/\u003eSome 10,000 copies of the novel will hit the bookstores later this week.\u003cbr/\u003eThe city's writers do not feel particularly threatened by the novel, describing it as a New Year's joke and badly-written.\u003cbr/\u003eVladimir Orlov, a writer, says the novel lacks energy and is trivial.\u003cbr/\u003eIlya Stogoff, another author, is very critical about the work of today's Russian writers.\u003cbr/\u003eHe says today's Russian writers have little or no writing ability. \u003cbr/\u003eIn one of the city's bookstores opinions are divided.\u003cbr/\u003eNikolai Agafonov says he is interested in seeing what a computer can 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