Eagle, R. orcid.org/0000-0001-8553-1713, Lander, R. and Hall, P.D. (2021) Questioning ‘what makes us human’: How audiences react to an artificial intelligence–driven show. Cognitive Computation and Systems, 3 (2). pp. 91-99. ISSN 2517-7567
Abstract
I am Echoborg is promoted as ‘a show created afresh each time by the audience in conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI)’. The show demonstrates how AI in a creative and performance context can raise questions about the technology’s ethical use for persuasion and compliance, and how humans can reclaim agency. This audience study focuses on a consecutive three-night run in Bristol, UK in October 2019. The different outcomes of each show illustrate the unpredictability of audience interactions with conversational AI and how the collective dynamic of audience members shapes each performance. This study analyses (1) how I am Echoborg facilitates audience cocreation in a live performance context, (2) the show’s capacity to provoke nuanced understandings of the potential for AI and (3) the ability for intelligent technology to facilitate social interaction and group collaboration. This audience study demonstrates how the show inspires debate beyond binary conclusions (i.e. AI as good or bad) and how audiences can understand potential creative uses of AI, including as a tool for cocreating entertainment with (not just for) them.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. Cognitive Computation and Systems published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Institution of Engineering and Technology and Shenzhen University. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
Keywords: | artificial intelligence, entertainment, human computer interaction, innovation management, interactive systems, social aspects of automation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Performance and Cultural Industries (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 02 Oct 2024 09:46 |
Last Modified: | 02 Oct 2024 09:46 |
Published Version: | https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1049/ccs2.12018 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:217819 |