Will AI soon be your favourite author?

'The inevitable question is how soon can you and I get to use AI to write?', asks the author

The first full-length Korean novel written by artificial intelligence (AI) hit bookshelves in Seoul last month. The World From Now On, published by Parambook, was written by an AI author named Birampung under the direction of novelist and mathematician Kim Tae-yon.

The 560-page book tells the story of five people — a disabled amateur mathematician, a math professor and entrepreneur, a psychiatrist, an astrophysicist and a Buddhist monk — who are drawn to each other in their individual quests to understand the meaning of human existence.

Kim has previously published five full-length novels and two mathematical novels. In publishing his latest work,