{"id":24008,"date":"2016-03-26T15:48:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T22:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/artificial-intelligence-writes-novel-nearly-wins-japans-unique-literary-prize"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:39:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:39:47","slug":"artificial-intelligence-writes-novel-nearly-wins-japans-unique-literary-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/artificial-intelligence-writes-novel-nearly-wins-japans-unique-literary-prize","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Writes Novel, Nearly Wins Japan\u2019s Unique Literary Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A novel written by artificial intelligence was a finalist in Japan\u2019s Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award. The award is named after Hoshi Shinichi, a Japanese science fiction author whose books include The Whimsical Robot<\/em> and Greetings from Outer Space<\/em>. The unique contest accepts submissions from humans and machines, and judges for the prize, now in its third year, weren\u2019t told which novels were written by humans and which were penned by human-AI teams. This year was the first time the committee received submissions written by AI programs.<\/p>\n

The AI novel is called The Day A Computer Writes A Novel<\/em>, or Konpyuta ga shosetsu wo kaku hi<\/em> in Japanese. It was co-written by Hishoshi Matsubara, a professor of computer science, along with his team at Future University Hakodate in Japan. According to the LA Times<\/a><\/em>, their AI wrote four books, of which one made it past the first round of the prize. It was one of 1450 submissions, 11 of which were written with the help of AI programs.<\/p>\n

According to reports, 80% of the novel had human involvement, as Matsubara and his team did the research for the novel, decided on the plot and developed the characters. The novel\u2019s text was written entirely by the AI. The Professor\u2019s team entered words and phrases from a sample novel into a computer in order for the AI to construct a new novel similar to it, Slate<\/em><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

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A novel written by artificial intelligence was a finalist in Japan\u2019s Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award. The award is named after Hoshi Shinichi, a Japanese science fiction author whose books include The Whimsical Robot and Greetings from Outer Space. The unique contest accepts submissions from humans and machines, and judges for the prize, now in its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50882,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24008\/revisions\/50882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}