{"id":707,"date":"2021-03-01T13:42:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/01\/on-the-scene-like-a-sex-obsessed-machine-when-a-robot-writes-a-play\/"},"modified":"2021-03-01T13:42:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:42:47","slug":"on-the-scene-like-a-sex-obsessed-machine-when-a-robot-writes-a-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/01\/on-the-scene-like-a-sex-obsessed-machine-when-a-robot-writes-a-play\/","title":{"rendered":"On the scene, like a sex-obsessed machine: when a robot writes a play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a drama written by artificial intelligence, the computer\u2019s imagination touches on themes of love and loneliness \u2013 but is mostly obsessed with sex<\/p>\n<p>Kazuo Ishiguro, whose new novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/feb\/25\/klara-and-the-sun-by-kazuo-ishiguro-review-what-it-is-to-be-human\">Klara and the Sun<\/a> is about artificial intelligence, has said he is worried about a time when an AI programme is able to write fiction \u201cthat can make me cry, that can show human emotions \u2026 that can have the capacity for empathy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/theaitre.com\/\">first drama to be written by artificial intelligence<\/a> shows we are a long way from that future. Ninety<strong> <\/strong>per cent of its \u201cautobiographical\u201d material has been generated from its depths while the remaining \u2013 human \u2013 touches are administered by a team of computer scientists, theatre-makers and academics. A partnership between the Czech Centre in London and Prague\u2019s \u0160vanda theatre, it is performed in Czech with English subtitles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2021\/mar\/01\/on-the-scene-like-a-sex-obsessed-machine-when-a-robot-writes-a-play-ai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9947429e47d84489d703f608ef5b1308b4312958\/401_593_2290_1374\/master\/2290.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1234568ea7877167aef532fee04d30fb\" title=\"On the scene, like a sex-obsessed machine: when a robot writes a play\" \/>In a drama written by artificial intelligence, the computer\u2019s imagination touches on themes of love and loneliness \u2013 but is mostly obsessed with sex<br \/>\nKazuo Ishiguro, whose new novel Klara and the Sun is about artificial intelligence, has said he is worried about a time when an AI programme is able to write fiction \u201cthat can make me cry, that can show human emotions \u2026 that can have the capacity for empathy\u201d.<br \/>\nThe first drama to be written by artificial intelligence shows we are a long way from that future. Ninety per cent of its \u201cautobiographical\u201d material has been generated from its depths while the remaining \u2013 human \u2013 touches are administered by a team of computer scientists, theatre-makers and academics. A partnership between the Czech Centre in London and Prague\u2019s \u0160vanda theatre, it is performed in Czech with English subtitles. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a drama written by artificial intelligence, the computer\u2019s imagination touches on themes of love and loneliness \u2013 but is mostly obsessed with sex Kazuo Ishiguro, whose new novel Klara and the Sun is about artificial intelligence, has said he is worried about a time when an AI programme is able to write fiction \u201cthat &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/01\/on-the-scene-like-a-sex-obsessed-machine-when-a-robot-writes-a-play\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the scene, like a sex-obsessed machine: when a robot writes a play<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}