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<\/div>AUDIENCE EXPECTATIONS<\/h2>
If you think human improv comedy is insufferable, wait until you see a show that can’t pass the Turing Test.<\/p>
Kory Mathewson, an artificial intelligence researcher at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, created an algorithm designed to riff with him onstage<\/a>. He trained it to create lines of dialogue to be used in an improv performance by feeding it subtitles from hundreds of thousands of movies<\/a>.<\/p> Then, according to a new paper<\/a> uploaded to the preprint server arXiv, <\/em>Mathewson used the AI to perform a mind-bending experiment to test if a live audience could differentiate it from a human performer.<\/p> In the experiment, three human performers took the stage<\/a>. One improvised dialogue in response to audience cues. Another repeated dialogue fed by an offstage human through an earpiece. And a third said lines provided by the AI, read to them by an offstage human via earpiece.<\/p> After the performance, audience members guessed which performer had been reciting the AI’s lines. Most of them correctly identified the AI — but a handful of viewers were fooled.<\/p> It’s an intriguing experiment, but watching the AI spit out stilted dialogue with Mathewson, it’s hard to imagine the routine becoming a comedy classic.<\/p> “Blueberry, I created you,” Mathewson tells a robot programmed with the improv AI during a performance earlier this year, in a video<\/a> by Bloomberg Businessweek<\/em>. “I downloaded a voice into your brain so that you could perform in front of these people.”<\/p> “So they do not know what I am going to say?” the robot asks.<\/p> “I don’t know what you’re going to say either,” Mathewson says, laughing. Good stuff.<\/p> READ MORE: AI tries bad improv comedy to trick people into thinking it is human<\/a> <\/strong>[New Scientist<\/em>]<\/p> More on AI performers: A Robot Will Become A Real-Life Movie Star<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p> The post Behold: A Robot That Can Do Improv Comedy Just as Badly as a Human<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Go here to see the original: AUDIENCE EXPECTATIONS If you think human improv comedy is insufferable, wait until you see a show that can\u2019t pass the Turing Test. Kory Mathewson, an artificial intelligence researcher at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, created an algorithm designed to riff with him onstage . He trained it to create lines of dialogue to be used in an improv performance by feeding it subtitles from hundreds of thousands of movies Continue reading TALKING HEAD<\/h2>
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Behold: A Robot That Can Do Improv Comedy Just as Badly as a Human<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"