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On the scene, like a sex-obsessed machine: when a robot writes a play
1 month ago | By The Guardian
In a drama written by artificial intelligence, the computer's imagination touches on themes of love and loneliness - 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 “that can make me cry, that can show human emotions... that can have the capacity for empathy”. The first drama to be written by artificial intelligence shows we are a long way from that future. Ninetyper cent of its “autobiographical” material has been generated from its depths...
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