oooh it just past screening. The title of this article is very misleading thou. Cus the article itself just mentions it passing screening, not winning. I really hate these click baity titles for tech bros
I writhed with joy, which I experienced for the first time, and kept writing with excitement.
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I had thought my job was safe from automation–a computer couldn’t possibly replicate the complex creativity of human language in writing or piece together a coherent story. I may have been wrong. Authors beware, because an AI-written novel just made it past the first round of screening for a national literary prize in Japan.
The novel this program co-authored is titled, The Day A Computer Writes A Novel. It was entered into a writing contest for the Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award. The contest has been open to non-human applicants in years prior, however, this was the first year the award committee received submissions from an AI. Out of the 1,450 submissions, 11 were at least partially written by a program.
Here’s an excerpt from the novel to give you an idea as to what human contestants were up against:
“I writhed with joy, which I experienced for the first time, and kept writing with excitement.
“The day a computer wrote a novel. The computer, placing priority on the pursuit of its own joy, stopped working for humans.”
Maybe the glut of iskaie light novels by human competitors were really that bad for this to pass