The Independent: What might 17th-century French playwright Molière have penned next, had he not tragically collapsed on stage while acting in on of his own plays.
This tantalising question has finally been addressed thanks to a unique collaboration between French scholars, artists, and an artificial intelligence firm.
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My first thought was “is this a joke?” My second was “is this what we want Artificial Intelligence to do?” This also might be one of the best uses that I’ve seen of Artificial Intelligence. The choice to edit Artificial Intelligence and not let it run rampant on its, but to correct its historical inaccuracies and shape the content that it produced may be the saving grace of this piece of work. I wonder if this will be a recurring thing or if it would be a one and done type of event as the source material would run out without new input and since minding reading and speaking to the dead are quite difficult it would mean they start putting words into Moliere’s mouth that may not have the same voice or the same potency of his original or actual works. I think presenting this work in the Palace of Versailles is a very interesting portion of this concept as well.
Yet again, another instance of generative Artifical Intelligence being used in the stupidest ways possible. It’s not that this concept is moronic in and of itself, personally I think a comedy exploring what might have happened if Molière hadn’t died at the age of 51 could be incredible, but the mere fact that it’s being produced by AI is distrubing to say the least. Everyday I find the general public, along with myself, becoming more and more annoyed or even disgusted with the use of generative AI. Generative AI was promised to us as a technology that could improve our lives for the better across industries, and even when platforms such as ChatGPT took prominence, it seemed relatively harmless. Even the play “L'Astrologue ou les Faux Presages” looks harmless on the surface, but it’s the implications of using AI for art that shatters hope for the future of creativity and even the direction humanity heads in.
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