Right now, in a play on a human literary contest, throughout a hundred people are drafting computer programs that will write texts for them, the News says. It’s a reply to November’s National Novel Writing Month, an anniversary challenge that gets writers to finish a 50,000-word book on a deadline.
News explains the futuristic tale was started by developer and artist Darius Kazemi, who inspired creations made entirely by code. These computerized novels are growing more sophisticated.
A computer writes “True Love”.
One of the first computer-generated jobs of fiction was written in 2008.The St. Petersburg Times reported at the time that “True Love”, written by the Russia’s SPb publishing company, was the work of a computer program and a team of IT specialists. The article says the 320-page novel is an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina”, but the word in the style of a Japanese author called Haruki Murakami. It hit Russian bookstores in the same year. Here is an extract:
“Kitty couldn’t fall asleep for a long time. Her nervures were distorted as two tight strings, and even a glass of hot wine, that Vronsky made her drink, did not help her. Lying in couch she kept going over and over that monstrous scene at the meadow.”
Two years ago the News noted that Professor Philip Parker at the Insead Business School designed software capable of producing more than 200,000 books. They cover topics like the amount of fat in fromage frais; there’s even a Romanian crossword guide. But the study, ultimately, was created to help the publishing process and looks at the likes of changing and composition. The books simply gather existing information and create new forecasts using formulas. Still, they led to Professor Parker testing with software that might one day actually automate fiction.
The question is: will these AI books fool humans?
He looked at research specifically. Turing’s literacy test for a computer made fiction is this:
- Soft test – Human readers can’t tell it’s not human generated.
- Hard test – Human readers not only can’t tell it’s not human-generated, but they’ll actually purchase it.
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