I think AI writing competitions have an underestimated potential as a metric of advances in their higher cognition. There’s the baseline ability to tell a coherent story, to describe a possible world consistently. But above that, there’s everything that goes towards making a work of good or even great literature. A literary scholar or professional critic might be able to identify a whole set of milestones—aesthetic, didactic, even spiritual—by which to judge the progress of AI-generated literature.
I think AI writing competitions have an underestimated potential as a metric of advances in their higher cognition. There’s the baseline ability to tell a coherent story, to describe a possible world consistently. But above that, there’s everything that goes towards making a work of good or even great literature. A literary scholar or professional critic might be able to identify a whole set of milestones—aesthetic, didactic, even spiritual—by which to judge the progress of AI-generated literature.