An Artificially Intelligent Guide to Love

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Experimental drama as writer Hannah Silva collaborates with a machine-learning algorithm to create an audio guide to love. The algorithm produces poems and stories in response to the writer’s poems and stories. It answers the writer’s questions and it asks her questions. What is love? Is it an emotion? Is it an action? How does it work? What do we feel? What do we do? Hannah tells the algorithm that she wants to think about love because in the past she didn’t think about it, she just fell in it. The algorithm and the writer explore the theme of love in all its forms - parental love, romantic love, friendship and loss of love. The algorithm’s often absurdist and poetic texts frame and comment on the writer’s personal story of love and loss as a queer single mum. An Artificially Intelligent Guide to Love was developed through OKRE Experimental Stories. The consultant was Dr James Carney. The script was written using texts generated by the GPT-J algorithm, a language prediction model trained and maintained by EleutherAI, a grassroots collective of researchers working to open source AI research. Cast: Algorithm .…. Fiona Shaw Writer ….. Yusra Warsama Woman ….. Jane Slavin Man ….. Neil Bell Written by Hannah Silva Executive Producer ….. Sara Davies Production Manager ….. Anna de Wolff Evans Sound Design ….. Adam Woodhams Mix …… Steve Bond Music …… Ioana Selaru Director/Producer ….. Nicolas Jackson An Afonica production for BBC Radio 4