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Humans and AI Make Strange Bedfellows

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On January 17, Rie Kudan, a 33-year old Japanese author, won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for best work of fiction by a new writer, for her book The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy. This is the top prize in Japan for literature, awarded to new writers biannually. There was just one thing unusual about the award this year. Kudan ha…