"Based on a conversation recorded by MOOEC's Conversation Partner (a free online AI English language learning tool) in October 2014; this video is a verbatim interpretation of a real conversation between two human-like intelligent agent, the Grammar Guru and Cleverbot Evie.
The piece satirises the phenomena of ineffective communication between autonomous intelligent agents and finds humour in their inability to “understand” each other’s context.
Actors perform dialogue in two different ways. The first seeks to resemble the mechanism of the original bot; as artificial creatures with a limited expressive facial and vocal range. The second shows them as humans, interpreting the dialog as a human would, with a natural array of emotions. The edit, blends these two modes of performance, to contrast the juxtaposition between the human-like and the human."
The piece satirises the phenomena of ineffective communication between autonomous intelligent agents and finds humour in their inability to “understand” each other’s context.
Actors perform dialogue in two different ways. The first seeks to resemble the mechanism of the original bot; as artificial creatures with a limited expressive facial and vocal range. The second shows them as humans, interpreting the dialog as a human would, with a natural array of emotions. The edit, blends these two modes of performance, to contrast the juxtaposition between the human-like and the human."
