日本机器人小说家入围文学奖
Is the future award-winning novelist a writing robot?
Could a writing robot make novelists obsolete?
机器人作家会让人类小说家失业吗？
It might not happen anytime soon, but then again, it might. In Japan, a short novel co-written by an artificial intelligence program (its co-author is human) made it past the first stage of a literary contest, the Japan News reports.
目前也许还不能，但未来可说不准。据日本新闻社报道，一篇由人工智能程序和人类作家合作完成的短篇小说在一项文学大赛中通过了第一轮筛选。
The Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award is named after Hoshi Shinichi, a Japanese science fiction author whose books include "The Whimsical Robot" and "Greetings from Outer Space." Judges for the prize weren't told which novels were written by humans and which were penned by human-computer teams.
日本星新一文学奖是以日本科幻小说家星新一命名的一个奖项，该作家的作品包括《反复无常的机器人》、《来自外太空的问候》等。该奖的评委并不会被事先告知作品是由人类还是人机共创的。
The award is unique in that it accepts entries from "applicants who are not human beings (AI programs and others)." Novels co-written by humans and computers were submitted to the prize committee.
该奖项的独特之处在于它接受那些非人类申请者（人工智能等)的参赛报名。奖项评审委员会接受了由人类和计算机共同完成的参赛作品。
The Asahi Shimbun reports that one of four books co-written by an AI program made it past the first stage of the contest.
日本朝日新闻消息称，那些由人类和人工智能共同完成的参赛作品中，有四分之一通过了第一轮筛选。
Teams of writers worked with an AI program to create the cyborg novels. The level of human involvement in the novels was about 80%, one of the professors who worked on the project said.
