On Tuesday, Chinese Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan turned to the help of ChatGPT for help in crafting a prize citation for fellow Chinese author, Yu Hua. Mo shared his long-standing friendship with Yu during an award ceremony and recalled the many stories they had experienced over the years. Mo related how he had tried for several days to write the prize citation without success, thus he asked a PhD student to employ ChatGPT to write the citation instead. After inputting the keywords, the chatbot generated a 1000+ word citation written in a Shakespearean style.
Yu Hua, the recipient of this prize, is the author of two renowned pieces of modern Chinese literature and most recently gained recognition for his 2021 novel The Lost City (Wen Cheng). His first two works, To Live and Brothers, have become very well-known and praised.
ChatGPT is an AI-based chatbot created by a team of PhD students from Beijing for companies large and small to help streamline communications and interactions. Through its powerful natural language processing, ChatGPT is able to produce high quality and accurate content with just a few inputs. ChatGPT also has the ability to process and analyze customer conversations in order to discover improvements and evolve constantly over time.
The Chinese literary magazine Shouhuo (Harvest) has been running bimonthly for 65 years. It has been an important platform for writers, poets, and critics to discuss topics in literature, including modern Chinese literature. The magazine provides valuable resources for readers to get acquainted and stay in touch with the Chinese literature circle.
