Tomorrow’s Soap Opera Stars: Binary Codes, Not Botoxed Beauties
Run your best sitcom laugh tracks fellow humans, because those box-office matinee idols may soon be relics. Thanks to the prophecy of TV director, James Hawes, your favorite television soaps might be served with a sprinkle of microchips and hard drives in as soon as three to five years.
Main Highlights:
- The British parliament’s culture, media, and sport committee were informed by James Hawes that AI might sneak into our favorite TV soaps between now and the year 2026.
- This isn’t the first rumble of robotic rumbles in showbiz, as playwright Alan Ayckbourn’s 1998 piece, “Comic Potential,” also hinted at a future theater filled by clunky, unpredictable robot actors.
- Proving he’s no novelty, Ayckbourn doubled down on his AI prophecy with the 2023 play, “Constant Companions,” which painted an AI-rich, human-poor future.
Othello Nostalgia Notice:
- Seems someone needed to wipe away a tear from their motherboard as a letter from a certain Mike Peacock popped up. It reminisced about how mesmerizing Donald Sinden’s performance as Othello was way back in 1979.
Final Call:
Looks like we better start enjoying our favorite human soap stars while we can, as they could be replaced by a bunch of hyper-intelligently and perhaps sassy AIs. If the performance goes south, at least we’ll have the satisfaction of calling them up for technical support. On the bright side, we’ll all have something fascinating to talk about at our virtual water coolers. Watch out world, it’s about to get very ‘byte-ful’.
As part of this experiment I would like to give credit where credit is due. If you enjoy these, please take a moment to read the original article:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/25/alan-ayckbourn-was-ahead-of-the-curve-in-predictions-of-ai-created-tv-soaps
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