Researchers Use Robot to Write Play

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A group of Czech Artificial Intelligence (AI) experts and theater professionals have teamed up to create the world’s first play written with the help of a robot. The production, called THEaiTRE, is being created in honor of Rossum’s Universal Robots, a 1921 play that popularized the word “robot.” The 99-year-old play features humanoid robots, which later stage a rebellion that results in the extinction of humans. The team used an AI model called GPT-2, which can complete unfinished texts if adequately trained. This AI works by using information from a sample text fed into it. For example, if given a paragraph from a text, it will write additional sentences by generating new ideas from the same topic or concept. In their experiment, the experts noticed that GPT-2 was able to immediately mimic the genre, style, themes, and context of the text given to it. Currently, the experts are using GPT-2 to generate individual lines for the play’s script. The team is hopeful that the AI can write a summary of the play first, turn it into a synopsis, and finally expand it into dialogues. According to the people involved in the project, their biggest task is to ensure that the generated script is coherent, logical, and worth watching.