{"id":7121,"date":"2022-09-23T17:37:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T15:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/23\/a-laughing-robot-and-the-possibilities-of-ai-letter\/"},"modified":"2022-09-23T17:37:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T15:37:53","slug":"a-laughing-robot-and-the-possibilities-of-ai-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/23\/a-laughing-robot-and-the-possibilities-of-ai-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"A laughing robot and the possibilities of AI | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yvonne Whalley <\/strong>remembers Alan Ayckbourn\u2019s play in which a robot<strong> <\/strong>develops at least one human trait<\/p>\n<p>Your report (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/sep\/15\/scientists-teach-robot-laugh-right-time-research\" title=\"\">Scientists try to teach robot to laugh at the right time, 15 September<\/a>) reminded me of Sir Alan Ayckbourn\u2019s 1998 play Comic Potential. Except that in the play, the robot did not need to be taught to laugh. <\/p>\n<p>Set in the not too distant future, Comic Potential foresees TV soaps acted by AI robots. As the play opens, just such a TV programme \u2013 a hospital soap \u2013 is in progress. But in the studio where it is being recorded, the robots are malfunctioning and the action spirals into chaos.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/sep\/23\/a-laughing-robot-and-the-possibilities-of-ai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bf13f50c8a2078724f78ef21eacf5224590f3ac4\/0_62_4512_2708\/master\/4512.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f82a70f2c95ce4cac1e350853fa3bfd6\" title=\"A laughing robot and the possibilities of AI | Letter\" \/>Yvonne Whalley remembers Alan Ayckbourn\u2019s play in which a robot develops at least one human trait<br \/>\nYour report (Scientists try to teach robot to laugh at the right time, 15 September) reminded me of Sir Alan Ayckbourn\u2019s 1998 play Comic Potential. Except that in the play, the robot did not need to be taught to laugh.<br \/>\nSet in the not too distant future, Comic Potential foresees TV soaps acted by AI robots. As the play opens, just such a TV programme \u2013 a hospital soap \u2013 is in progress. But in the studio where it is being recorded, the robots are malfunctioning and the action spirals into chaos. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yvonne Whalley remembers Alan Ayckbourn\u2019s play in which a robot develops at least one human trait Your report (Scientists try to teach robot to laugh at the right time, 15 September) reminded me of Sir Alan Ayckbourn\u2019s 1998 play Comic Potential. Except that in the play, the robot did not need to be taught to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/23\/a-laughing-robot-and-the-possibilities-of-ai-letter\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A laughing robot and the possibilities of AI | Letter<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7122,"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\/7121"}],"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=7121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}