Software writes a book and almost wins literature prize – Pplware

Created by Vítor Martins on March 31, 2016 | 0 comments

There is a myth that the computer can not emulate the creativity of human beings, we have unique characteristics unable to be copied because they are robotic, with binary brains.

But in fact it is a myth. Japan has a literary prize called Shinichi Hoshi and this year had a very special guest, a computer that almost won the literature prize

According to information that we read on the website Big Think, a computer wrote a novel. This work is entitled “The day the computer writes a novel” ( “The day when a computer writes a novel” in free translation). This was entered in the essay contest for the Literary Prize Shinichi Hoshi.

The competition was open to non-human candidates already in previous years, however, this was the first year the commission received material produced by artificial intelligence. Of the 1,450 entries, 11 were at least partially written by a computer program.

The development of this novel is a highly sophisticated level. As we can see an excerpt from the book, there is already a powerful literary perception that allows the software to create magnificent phrases:

I writhed myself with joy when first experienced, and continued to write with emotion

the day that a computer wrote a novel. The day the computer wrote a novel. The computer puts priorities in pursuit of their own happiness, stop working for humans.

The team behind this literary Artificial Intelligence work is led by Hitoshi Matsubara, professor at the University of Hakodate future. His team acted as a guide for the software, deciding things like plot and sex of the characters. They also helped select prepared sentences, which the program used to “write” autonomously the book.

So far, the artificial intelligence programs have often been used to solve problems that have answers, such as Go and Shogi games. In the future, I would like to expand the potential of AI [so that it resembles] the human creativity.

said Matsubara to the site Yomiuri Shimbun.

A novelist this science fiction at the press retinue of the premium, Satoshi Hase, said he was surprised by the book “because it was a well-structured novel.” “But there are still some problems (to overcome) to win the award, as the descriptions of the characters,” he says. Although the novel has not taken the final prize, their performance shows the potential for this area

Via: HypeScience

<-. <- - external networks!> – end # content-area ->