{"id":140856,"date":"2022-06-20T19:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T00:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/ai-shakespeare-and-ai-oscar-wilde-debate-machine-creativity-at-oxford"},"modified":"2022-06-20T19:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T00:22:19","slug":"ai-shakespeare-and-ai-oscar-wilde-debate-machine-creativity-at-oxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/ai-shakespeare-and-ai-oscar-wilde-debate-machine-creativity-at-oxford","title":{"rendered":"AI Shakespeare and AI Oscar Wilde Debate Machine Creativity at Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-shakespeare-and-ai-oscar-wilde-debate-machine-creativity-at-oxford2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If that reads a little like Shakespeare defending humans\u2019 innate superiority over <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/tag\/artificial-intelligence\/\">artificial intelligence<\/a> hundreds of years ahead of his time, it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n<p>But it is something almost as far out: an AI system trained to express itself like the bard. The AI assimilated his style and perspective by ingesting his plays\u2014educating itself to give an opinion on AI creativity in iambic pentameter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShakespeare\u201d was speaking as part of a debate held in the University of Oxford Union featuring AI versions of classic writers and literary characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If that reads a little like Shakespeare defending humans\u2019 innate superiority over artificial intelligence hundreds of years ahead of his time, it\u2019s not. But it is something almost as far out: an AI system trained to express itself like the bard. The AI assimilated his style and perspective by ingesting his plays\u2014educating itself to give [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}