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Chris Cook Asked a Robot to Write Him a Five-Star Show & This Is What It Said

Chris Cook Asked a Robot to Write Him a Five-Star Show & This Is What It Said

Chris Cook Asked a Robot to Write Him a Five-Star Show & This Is What It Said

4/5

By Fringebiscuit

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A witty exploration of AI in the arts, Cook collaborates with an embodied ChatGPT on his magic set. Blurring tech & illusion, storyteller & subject, is this Pirandello in the age of neural networks?

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