Japanese AI writes short novel

At the third Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary in Japan, a team led by Professor Hitoshi Matsubara submitted a short novel created by an AI. The AI passed the first screening by the judges that have no idea which of the submissions were made by humans, or partly by humans With the title "The Day A Computer Writes A Novel", or Konpyuta ga shosetsu wo kaku hi in Japanese, the short novel is about an AI that abandons its responsibilities to humanity after it recognizes its own talent for writing. The year's award is the first time for the Hoshi Shinichi Literary to have included submissions from non-humans. At the event 11 submissions out of the total 1.450 were created by human-AI collaboration.