The Hoshi prize hopes stories created by artificial intelligences (AIs) will soon go up against those written by humans in the competition.
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/ 6 November 2009
With his new book, Intervention, Robin Cook moves, with mixed success, into the realm of Dan Brown.
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/ 17 September 2009
Dan Brown’s latest work, although banal, crammed with clichés and frequently nonsensical, is readable. Shaun de Waal did it in six hours.
The accountancy firm that looks after children’s entertainers the Wiggles is not an obvious place to search for the Holy Grail, but that’s where the trail led on Tuesday night. It started with a simple quest — what on earth is a large advertisment headlined ”The Ancient & Noble Order of The Knights Templar” doing in the Daily Telegraph?
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/ 28 November 2007
The Golden Compass, a -million picture based on Philip Pullman’s acclaimed novel Northern Lights, is caught between a United States Catholic group that has called for a boycott of what it sees as an attack on religion and Pullman purists who do not want the original watered down.
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/ 26 November 2007
There’s no mention of him in the Bible but the plot of a fantasy film set in India gives Jesus Christ a twin brother — and an evil one at that. German filmmaker Robert Sigl’s The 13th Disciple is still in the planning stage but producer Mario Stefan is in Goa trying to attract an Indian co-producer for the project.
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/ 19 November 2007
Hollywood is to fill in the Bible’s ”missing years” with a story about Jesus as a wandering mystic who travelled across India, living in Buddhist monasteries and speaking out against the iniquities of the country’s caste system. Film producers have delved deep into revisionist scholarship to piece together what they say was Jesus’s life between the ages of 13 and 30.
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/ 17 November 2007
In the first big-screen casualty of the Hollywood writers strike, Columbia Pictures said on Friday it had postponed production on Angels & Demons, a prequel to its box-office hit The Da Vinci Code starring Tom Hanks. The Sony-owned film distributor said the planned release date for the thriller has been pushed back to 2009.