Sitting at the Lincoln Center in anticipation of the curtain for Ayad Akhtar Mcneal—This this is the expected theater production with the participation of Robert Downey Jr., with ChatgPT in the supporting role – I wondered how the playwright have been dealing with the consequences of artificial intelligence for over a century. In 1920 – well, Alan Turing developed his famed test and a decades before the Summer Dartmouth conference in 1956, which gave artificial intelligence its name – a Czech playwright named Karel Čapek wrote Pipes – universal Rossum robots. Not only for the first time the word “robot” was used, but Čapek can qualify as the first Ai Doomer, because his art dramatized the uprising of Android, which killed all humanity, except for one soul.
This winter, there was a compact production with a black box called on the boards in Modern York ExterminorsA thinly veiled dramatization of the weekend, in which the Non -Profit OpenAi council gave Sam Altman starting, but saw how he returned after the employee rebellion.
None of these productions have a pizzah from the spread of extravagance on Broadway-maybe later we will buy tickets for a musical, in which Altman and Elon Musk have dance-but they both struggle with problems that resound in conference rooms in the Silicon Valley, congress interviews, and Sessions of drinking delayed night at the annual Neurips conference. Artists behind these arts reveal a justified obsession with impact on superintelligent artificial intelligence – or taking over the human imaginative process.
Exterminors He is the work of Matthew Gasdy, a playwright and screenwriter, who works Zero on Zeitgeist. His previous plays included Dimes squareAbout hipster in the city center and Zoomerswhose characters are Gen-Z Brooklynites. Gasda tells me that when he read Fr. Open BlipHe recognized this as an opportunity to fight heavier tariffs than teenage Modern Yorkers. The throwing and final renovation of Altman had a clear shakespear climate. Gasdy’s two-tone game on this subject contains two separate cast, one depicting a team of Altman in exile, and the other focused on the board-in this true extermination seemingly based on the theoretician Ai Elieza Yudkowsky and the greedy Venture capitalists-how they realize that their assassination is a shock. Both groups do a lot of gabbing about the dangers, promise and morality of AI, while they hit their trouble.
No wonder they don’t invent anything like a solution. The first act ends the dramatis personae, which shoot at alcohol; In the second act of the characters, the mushrooms devour. When I remember Gasd that he seems to be his characters shift the consequences of building artificial intelligence, he says that it was intentional. “If art has news, it is something like that,” he says. He adds that there is an even darker angle. “There are many suggestions that the fictitious LLM pierces its time and manipulates characters. The recipients decide whether it is Total Hokum or whether it is potentially true. “(Exterminors It still works in Brooklyn and will be Open in San Francisco in March.)
McnealThe production of Broadway with a film star, which is famed for the character based on Elon Musk, is a more ambitious work, with flashing screens, which the project raises and results, as if AI was a character herself. Jacob McNeal Downey, a narcissistic writer and abuse of a substance that gains a nobelice and loses his soul, may end with the most hazardous substance of all – the bait of immediate virtuosity from a vast language model.
Both drama are concerned about how deeply we are involved in the writing process. In an interview with the Atlantic, Akhtar, the winner of Pulitzer, says that the hours of experiments from LLMS helped him write a better game. It even gives chatgpt a literal last word. “It’s a game about AI,” he explains. “It is obvious that in many months I could finally force AI to give me something that I could use in the game.” Meanwhile, while Gasda gave the drama of Chatgpt and Claude loans in Exterminors The program is worried that AI will steal his words, speculating that in order to maintain his uniqueness, human writers can return to paper to hide their work from satisfied content of AI. He just finished the novel in 2040 “About the writer who sold all his work AI and has nothing to do.”