“Little Prince” meets “E.T.” with unintentional absurdities, a little violence, and some kink: behold, the first AI-written play. WorldTheaterDay
Here's how it works: First, a human feeds the program with a prompt. In this case, the researchers—at Charles University in Prague—began with two sentences of dialogue, where one or two characters chat about human feelings and experiences. The first input they gave to the AI, for example, was:"Hello, I am robot and it is a pleasure to invite you to see a play I wrote." The software then takes things from there, generating up to 1000 words of additional text.
That happens because the program doesn't really know the meaning of the sentences, says Chad DeChant, an AI expert at Columbia University."It just puts together words that are likely to be used together, one after the other," says DeChant, who was not part of the play but is curious to watch it. As it keeps going, there is more room for nonsense.
Because the computer didn't come up with the whole script itself, DeChant says he wouldn't call the play"AI created." He believes it will take about 15 years for the technology to be good enough to generate a complex and cohesive text like a theater play from beginning to end. But he thinks the experiment is still a nice way to show audiences what AI is currently able to do and"get people excited about it.
Still, Košťák says the resulting text was tough for the actors to interpret, especially because the AI was not very good at staging the type of action and emotion needed to make a play work."One of the actresses told me it was the most challenging work of her career," he says.
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