'BOTS LOST THEIR PLOTS' So how was a computer program writing a mysterious and coherent novel like 'AI-SIS'?

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If you didn’t know what you were doing, it was like tossing a board of Scrabble game tiles up into the air hoping the alphabet letters would come down to form a Shakespearean sonnet.

The trouble was that the computer itself had no idea what it was doing, until it did it. Neural net text generation, for all the memory grunt behind it, suffered a kind of short-term Alzheimer’s disease, its algorithms forgetting what came beforehand in a story, let alone knowing how it should end, processing words and phrases under the impetus of code, without a chain of reason and purpose.

Bots habitually lost plots.

His system had spat out a scenario about a surreally named goddess AI-sis, promising resurrection and that was just crazy enough to be AI.

But the flow of narrative did not meander like AI. 

The results were as jolting as seeing a ghost rear from the machine, yet mixed in with that shock was a spark of hope, no, a shower of sparks like those from a metal grinder, that he could pull off a miracle here. Finish a 50,000 word novel inside a month, create the ultimate AI generated novel and win the prize.

Suzanne heard his rush up the stairs. She sat up in the bed.

His hand trembled as he held out the page to her.

“Read this.”
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