From recommending us on what to read, machines are now capable of writing poetry, screenplays and even stories. Computers have moved from only helping their human creator to become creative entities themselves using Artificial Intelligence.
To improve machine’s natural language, Google is also working with Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts. First step was to make software understand the variances of human language. For this purpose, researchers have introduced more than 11000 novels to their artificial intelligence software. After achievement of this goal, they gave it two sentences – a starting and a closing sentence – from which the machine wrote several poems.
Once Artificial Intelligence software have all the understanding of language, it can be well coupled with the ability to synthesis. Then AI can write in appealing ways and can come up with plots and other things that can be quite intriguing. Artificial Intelligence has a big advantage over the human author that it can be very good at keeping track of the characters. It can keep perfect track of all the details and can check the story at all levels by machine to prevent the potential flaws in plot. Anyway, If you have any question related to writing and need to find an expert you may appeal to writers from ThesisGeek. Because it is necessary to help someone control and edit some mistakes.
But AI also has the potential to be abused. It can be used to keep authors out of the writing process or replace authors altogether. For this reason, AI detection systems are important.
The Future of Life Institute’s AI Impacts project conducted a survey recently. It predicts that artificial intelligence will be capable of writing a best-seller by 2050. But you don’t need to wait that long to read literature written by software. Here are the few instances where artificial intelligence has already made it to creative writing.
A Poetry Collection by AI
Cheers Publishing, the Chinese publishing company, has gone a step further last year. They published the first-ever poetry collection, Sunshine Misses Windows, written by an AI named XiaoIce (literally: Microsoft Little Ice). They claimed that it was the first book written by an Artificial Intelligence in human history. In 2760 hours, XiaoIce wrote more than 10000 poems. From them they selected only 139 for the collection titled “Sunshine Misses Windows”. The book has 10 chapters highlighting human emotions like loneliness, joy or anticipation. Here is one of XiaoIce’s poems, if you want to judge for yourself:
“The rain is blowing through the sea A bird in the sky A night of light and calm Sunlight Now in the sky Cool heart The savage north wind When I found a new world..."
A Machine Written Novel
In Japan, The Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award allows non-human authors to present their work. In 2016, award committee received 1450 application, out of which 11 were partially written by an AI program. Out of these 11, “The Day a Computer Writes a Novel” made it past the first round of the contest.
Here is an excerpt from that novel,
“I writhed with joy, which I experienced for the first time, and kept writing with excitement. “The day a computer wrote a novel. The computer, placing priority on the pursuit of its own joy, stopped working for humans.”
A professor at Future University Hakodate, Hitoshi Matsubara, led a team that created this literary AI program. The team acted as a guide to the AI in deciding things like the plot and gender of the characters.
A Machine Screenwriter Named Benjamin
AI has also made it to the world of movies, not just as part of the plot, but as a screenwriter. Scientist Ross Goodwin with his team has created an AI program called Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) which renamed itself Benjamin. This screenwriting software has already released its first debut short film Sunspring. The filmmaker Oscar Sharp directed it. Its creators decided to present it at Sci-Fi London, and it was selected as one of the 10 best short films.
According to you Is Artificial Intelligence in Creative Writing (Only if it happens) a Curse or a Blessing? As an Author (published or a budding) How do you see it, an Opportunity or a Drawback? Share your views and thoughts on this.
AI’s will never “understand” — but they will mimic understanding. Their breadth and depth will so astounding that they will be able to generate the semblance of emotional evocation. But they will never feel love or hate or loss or triumph.
The creation of content by AI is, I feel, a waste of time and resources. What an ALANN should be doing it replacing the literary agents and acquisition editors of publishers. (Automated Literary Analytic Neural Network) ALANN should consume stories and use its data banks to critique work based on what it has compiled.
Agreed
i agree with anonymole! Lol! yes indeed! Editors & publishing houses no longer needed! (Yes!) 😀 Something i would have never thought of!
What do i think about AI authors? Fascinating and a problem.
A problem, in that further mistreatment of talented people and fascinating for a season.
Also , AI Ghostwriters? People passing it off as their own work?
No AI will be able to compete with the author genuises i love- for the deepth & breadth, no AI can truly comprehend, & there are many who are popular & talentless.
There are many utterly awesome literary geniuses, who have been rejected, never published.
The AI addition, may make books too cheap to make a living on?
It is not worth whatever benefit, for the possible downside is too great. Greater than the upside.
As a writer, I dread this day. I’ll be as obsolete as rabbit ear antennas. Then again, what if they can create work similar to what I already like. I won’t have to wait around for that magical book to come along.
There are new AI startups using similar tech to break down a screenplay/novel into analytics in hope to predict it will be successful. My concern is that this will only add to the formulaic trash that the industry spits out. On the other hand, if it is structured in the right way, can it give a voice to writers that would not have been noticed? And not to be too critical, but is there a reason they shouldn’t be noticed? Are they lacking creativity and originality because they are a slave to these formulas?