[commonturtle]

> simply because that's also not how humans write novels.

Planes don't fly by flapping their wings either. It's totally possible we will construct a super capable artificial system that only vaguely resembles the human brain.

Personally I think if we managed to create a 10 times more sophisticated GPT-3 (instead of 2048 tokens it looked back 10k+ tokens) we might get pretty close to a novel writing AI.

[redisman]

I see it as a multi part process.

1) Generate a rough plot structure. Let's say even just do three acts: motivation -> conflict -> resolution. Now you have a logical throughline and your text generation algorithm doesn't need human level intelligence. This could be randomly generated or some kind of a search from a plot structures database with madlibs inserted into it. Generate 10 characters for the story and insert them into the variables in the plot structure.

2) Use the acts generated above as GPT-3 prompts to fill in the details.

If you start iterating on something like that for a while I bet you could get a decent novel out of it that would fool most people. Maybe you need to define each chapter in the first step, maybe it needs more details in the writing prompts, etc.