Will machine learning algorithms be writing commercials soon?
A familiar sight on US roads from 1926-1963 were a series of red billboards
advertising Burma-Shave. Each billboard would contain a snippet of a jingle, and
the last one always read “Burma-Shave”. There were about 600 different messages
printed over the years,
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