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Chen Qiufan and Kai-Fu Lee's much-lauded short story collection is more interested in AI boosterism than real inquiry.

The Digital Age of Enlightenment Chen Qiufan and Kai-Fu Lee’s much-lauded short story collection is more interested in AI boosterism than real inquiry by Esteban Hernandez In 2019, “State of Trance,” a short story co-written by Chinese science fiction author Chen Qiufan, took top prize in a literary competition put on by Sinan Literature Magazine , beating out the likes of Nobel laureate Mo Yan. The story’s other co-writer? An AI. Developed by Kai-Fu Lee, a venture capitalist and former president of Google China, the AI model was trained to imitate Chen’s voice using data sets of the aut

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