And if by story you understand a gymkhana of events, mysteries, and pursuits, then it isn't a story either.' In a brief prologue, a Google HR employee describes the text as a letter that is, 'at the same time. The novel takes the form of a highly unusual job application sent to Google by a pair of shadowy people named Mateo and Olga. It's an oversight translator Mark Schafer is addressing with Stay This Day and Night with Me, released in Spain in 2017. And though AI can, technically, translate, only a human can read attentively and sensitively enough to genuinely recreate literature - like these three translated works of science and science-minded fiction - in a new language.īelén Gopegui has been one of Spain's major literary writers since her debut novel, La escala de los mapas, came out in 1993, but her fiction has rarely been translated into English. Science-fiction magazines are grappling with a deluge of AI submissions - though, Clarkesworld editor Neil Clarke told The New York Times, stories written by chatbots are 'bad in spectacular ways,' and therefore quite easy to notice and disqualify.Īrtificial minds cannot imagine, and fiction that does not engage the imagination doesn't deserve the name. School administrators and teachers worry about students handing in AI-generated papers writers, translators, and artists worry that AI may supplant them professionally. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills-and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit-he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next.Lately, discussions about artificial intelligence seem ubiquitous.

The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old 'human error' are much more likely to kill him first.īut Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.Īfter a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive-and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.Ĭhances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. **In the Classroom Edition of The Martian:

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