Artificial intelligence is helping 11 science fiction authors write new stories for publication every week
- The Co-Creation project was initiated by award-winning sci-fi writer Stanley Chen Quifan and an AI training camp under Sinovation Ventures
- AI algorithms can fill in additional details after just getting the first sentence, but past efforts produced prose that lacked coherence
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.
The goal of Co-Creation is to produce stories that explore themes such as gender, environmental protection and the relationship between humans and computers, among other topics.
To create the stories, writers will use an algorithm that is pre-trained using various forms of text pulled from the internet, according to Chen. But it will also require fine-tuning, which will be done by feeding the algorithms selected works of sci-fi.
The process enables the AI to learn how to structure sentences and understand relationships between different characters. So after an author writes down the first sentence, the machine will add an additional sentence or paragraph that continues the story.
