Artificial intelligence is helping 11 science fiction authors write new stories for publication every week


To create the stories, writers will use an algorithm that is pre-trained using various forms of text pulled from the Internet, according to award-winning sci-if writer Stanley Chen. — Shutterstock/SCMP

A new project in China is teaming 11 authors with artificial intelligence to write science fiction. The original stories, in Chinese, will be published on a weekly basis throughout November and December.

The project, called Co-Creation, was initiated by award-winning sci-fi writer Stanley Chen Qiufan and DeeCamp, an AI training camp under Sinovation Ventures AI Institute. Chen previously worked for Baidu and Google China, but he now works with DeeCamp through his company Thema Mundi Productions.

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