Japanese robot writer composed stories of the national contest

The short novel is so excellent that the writer's intellectual program is so excellent that the judges don't even recognize the author.

In the future, artificial intelligence can compose like a writer.(Artwork: Corbis)

The International Business Times on March 24 reported the novel entitled " The Age of Novel Writing" , created by the artificial intelligence software program (AI) of a group of engineers from Hakodate University, Japan. Although not ranked first in the third Nikkei Literature Awards Hoshi Shinichi competition, the work passed the preliminary round.

Technically, AI does not actually write a novel. The engineering team created parameters related to the story and characters , then provided words to use and string AI. The results were so impressive that the judges did not recognize the work created by the AI ​​program.

Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award for non-human candidates (AI and other programs). However, Japan News said that 2016 was the first year an AI program registered for the contest.

AI can solve the problem effectively but has not reached the level of simulating activity that is imaginative . The US Microsoft Corporation is trying to teach self-thinking AI programs.

" Recently, AI programs are often used to solve the right and wrong answers, such as Google's Alpha Go product. In the future, I want to expand my creative potential as a child. AI, "Hitoshi Matsubara, professor at Hakodate University and AI development team leader, said.