ED FRINGE 2023 REVIEW | Artifical Intelligence Improvisation
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Reviewer - Jordan
*Disclaimer: Gifted tickets in return for an honest review
Artificial Intelligence Improvisation is not only very funny, but thought provoking. The show takes us on a journey of improv comedy through the lens of the various forms of AI that have become prevalent in this day and age, speech recognition, image and presentation generation, and most importantly, speech generation. This is an improv show unlike any I’ve seen, as they aren’t just relying on prompts from the audience to build their scenes, but AI as well, even going so far as to allow members of the cast to be “controlled” by AI, temporarily becoming “cyborgs” in order to act out their scenes.
A fantastic look at how AI can be used in an artistic space while also showing us that it isn’t quite as advanced as we all feared, as it struggles with even the most mundane task, like generating dialogue for an investment banker who wishes to become an astronaut, you know, everyday things like that. It may be able to fool university examiners, but sadly it’s not quite ready to fully embody a midlife crisis.
Thoroughly enjoyed the show, it was interesting to see just how well the AI prompts were able to keep up with each of the ongoing scenes, or not as was sometimes the case, and how the rest of the cast had to react to this. Certainly different, definitely entertaining.
At Gilded Balloon until 27 Aug.
