The Next Shakespeare?

PositionTECHNOLOGY

How well can robots write? Experts in Czechia [Czech Republic] are creating the first play scripted by artificial intelligence. The project--called THEaiTRE--is meant to celebrate the 100th anniversary of R.U.R., a 1921 science fiction play that gave us the word robot. Getting a machine to write is a complicated process, but basically, researchers show the robot existing drama scripts, and it generates something similar. The team has been "quite amazed" at how well the process works, Rudolf Rosa, one of the researchers, told Tech...

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