improbotics.org - Improbotics – Theatre lab and AI improv pioneers

Description: Improbotics is a theatre lab that pioneered improvised theatre and comedy alongside generative AI in 2016. Improbotics is both a science comedy show and a live Turing test. An artificial intelligence-based chatbot is performing alongside a human cast, and it tries to pass as human as it sends lines to one of the improvisers via…

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Theatre lab and AI improv pioneers

Improbotics is a theatre lab that pioneered improvised theatre and comedy alongside generative AI in 2016. Improbotics is both a science comedy show and a live Turing test. An artificial intelligence-based chatbot is performing alongside a human cast, and it tries to pass as human as it sends lines to one of the improvisers via an earpiece. Our hilarious challenge is to attempt to justify, physically and emotionally, AI-generated lines that may make no sense at all.

Improbotics was co-created by AI and robotics researchers Piotr Mirowski (UK/France/Poland) and Kory Mathewson (Canada), later joined by drama director Jenny Elfving (Sweden), science communicator Ben Verhoeven (Belgium) and communications and digital media expert  Boyd Branch (US). Our show combines ideas from our previous troupe HumanMachine ‘s Artificial Intelligence Improvisation , and from the classical improv game called Actor’s Nightmare or Lines From a Play .

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