We taught an AI to impersonate Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde – here’s what it revealed about sentience

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We taught an AI to impersonate Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde – here’s what it revealed about sentience

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Artificial intelligence can be used to ‘recreate’ literary greats [Image – rawpixel.com via Freepik]

Alex Connock and Professor Andrew Stephen from the University of Oxford’s Säid Business School share their experience of interacting with artificial intelligence versions of famous historical figures. This is an abridged version of the article that appeared in The Conversation

Nay, nay, I say! This cannot be, That machines should e’er surpass our art. We are the masters, them the slaves, And thus it ever shall be so, Writing Robot, ‘Shall I compare thee to a balmy motherboard?’ [Image – kjpargeter via Freepik]