Get the latest tech news

Professor wins national writing competition with new novel – but AI wrote it


A Chinese professor at at Beijing’s Tsinghua University won a national writing competition with a sci-fi novel, using the power of AI.

Chinese Journalism professor Shen Yang weaved together his story of the futuristic realms of the metaverse and humanoid robots to great acclaim and he has pledged to outline how others can emulate him, as reported by the South China Morning Post. Still, the outcome was a full text generated online, which was so impressive – and challenging to detect – that it won a vote from three of six judges on the contest panel hosted by the Jiangsu Science Writers Association. One judge was said to have been informed that AI had been deployed in the novel Land of Memories, while another believed that it had been used and did not select the book as the content “lacked emotion.”

Get the Android app

Or read this on ReadWrite

Read more on:

Photo of professor

professor

Photo of new novel

new novel

Related news:

News photo

Jack Dongarra, professor, Turing laureate and co-founder of TOP500 supercomputer list says China’s supercomputer power may exceed all countries but flies under the radar because of sanctions