1984 Whitbread Awards
The Whitbread Awards (since 2006 called the Costa Book Awards) are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards. They were first given in 1971. The selections are made both for high literary merit and for works that are enjoyable reading and whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 1984.[1]
Short Story
Winners:
- Diane Rowe, Tomorrow is our Permanent Address
gollark: I have not.
gollark: And it clearly isn't what we might stereotypically think of an AI as, since it isn't agenty and doesn't even have writable memory.
gollark: There are also a lot of things it can't do, like many other reasoning tasks, anything not expressible as text, and a lot of things requiring world modeling. But I don't know if that means it isn't "thinking".
gollark: I don't know if it can "think" because that's quite poorly defined. I do know that it can do some amount of logical and common-sense reasoning and has very good language abilities.
gollark: <@267332760048238593> "Manages charts"?
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