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2017

Improvised Comedy as a Turing Test

Mathewson, Kory Wallace, Mirowski, Piotr

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The best improvisational theatre actors can make any scene partner, of any skill level or ability, appear talented and proficient in the art form, and thus "make them shine".

To challenge this improvisational paradigm, we built an artificial intelligence (AI) trained to perform live shows alongside human actors for human audiences.
Over the course of 30 performances to a combined audience of almost 3000 people, we have refined theatrical games which involve combinations of human and (at times, adversarial) AI actors.
We have developed specific scene structures to include audience participants in interesting ways.

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