Human Improvised Theatre Augmented with Artificial Intelligence
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Improvisational theatre (improv) has been proposed as a grand challenge for general artificial intelligence (AI)~\citemartin2016improvisational. Current state-of-the-art conversational intelligence models lack proper grounding, language understanding, and generate meaningless meandering responses~\citedziri2018augmenting. Utilizing them as improvised comedy partners (improvisors) is doomed to fail - curiously, this limitation makes their use particularly appealing. Improv theatre celebrates risk taking and failure by inviting performers to express themselves without hesitation or fear of being judged~\citejohnstone1979impro. Our installation is an interactive improv workshop for a group of interested participants, culminating in a live public performance. Attendees are invited to observe and interact with AI-based improvisational theatre technology. The workshop is facilitated by two improv theatre professionals with a combined 30 years of experience in teaching, training, and touring. The performance features various AI tools for augmented creativity.
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The current state-of-the-art method for longer text generation incorporates a human-in-the-loop who selects from various generations sampled from the model.
“Because these models do not achieve long-term semantic coherence, the current state-of-the-art method for longer text generation incorporates a human-in-the-loop who selects from various generations sampled from the model [10,67,75].”
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Mirowski, P., Mathewson, K. W., Pittman, J., & Evans, R. (2023) · Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/3544548.3581225 · Cited by 240 · see citing works
“Automatic generation of stories with dialogue has been used to populate digital worlds in video games, interactive narratives, entertainment, virtual worlds [82], artistic performances [48], improvised theatre [10, 70, 75], short film scripts like Sunspring in 2016, song music lyrics for musical Beyond the Fence in 20…”
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- Authors
- Mirowski, P., & Mathewson, K. W.
- Affiliations
- HumanMachine, London, United Kingdom
- University of Alberta (CA)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2019 on Creativity and Cognition
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2019-06-13
- Pages
- 527-530
- OpenAlex
- W2950077203
- Cited by
- 6
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 3.56
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Creativity and Cognition (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Art, Technology, and Culture
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Theatre and Performance Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI
- Keywords
- improvised theatre, conversational AI, interactive workshops, live performance
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