Taking care of business…

I decided that it would be a good idea to go through the prescribed structure and make sure that we have missed NOTHING (if it’s on the whiteboard… do it). Caitlyn has also done this but I thought that a second opinion wouldn’t hurt.

Setting: Yes – we incorporate the past (Ancient Greek God scene), the present (Peppa the helper robot) and the future (courtroom scene)

Performance Style: Epic Theatre (we use many epic theatre conventions during our performance e.g. Chelsea didactically addresses the audience, use of multimedia, breaking the tension) and Theatre of Cruelty (we also use many theatre of cruelty conventions e.g. assaulting the senses – sound, yelling at audience, visual poetry – we are yet to devise this … I suggest we create this in tomorrow’s lesson)

Prescribed Dramatic Elements: Sound (we the actors use the batons to create noise), Mood (we create a number of different moods within our play e.g. during our poem we create a tense and frightening mood),  Tension (e.g. when Georgia, Caitlyn and myself become the characters, emotional technology, we attack Chelsea verbally and continuously get more aggressive this creates a rise of tension on the stage) and Space (e.g. we create a use of levels during our poem).

Prescribed Stagecraft: Sound (we have electronic sound coming from our multimedia – songs and high pitched tones), Multimedia (as mentioned before, we have a presentation which will be displayed on a wall via a projector), Props (e.g. baton, masks, chairs), and Costumes (e.g. Chelsea has collected tops for us all to wear which we will transform to make them look like machine parts).

Plot:

• The history of AI and early developments
  • Ancient Greek God – Hephastus
  • Alan Turing
  • Google Car
  • Peppa – the helper robot
  • Huan – the helper robot
• Current uses of AI that are generally well known in the wider community
  • Google car
  • Tay AI
• Current uses of AI existing on the fringe and/or cutting edge of this technology, mostly unknown in the wider community
  • Emotional technology
  • Peppa – the helper robot
  • Huan – the helper robot
• Examples of AI use you consider immoral or unethical
  • fully autonomous machines (this is made clear in our visual poetry piece)
• The challenge for lawmakers in relation to AI
  • courtroom scene – the prosecutor questions how we will be able to persecute this machine in a room that was designed to try humans
• Positive potential uses for AI in the future
  • Huan
  • Peppa
  • Brai
• Negative potential uses for AI in the future
  • Autonomous machines taking over
• Decisions humankind must make about AI
  • In our opening scene we ask Georgia, who is playing the character of Scientist, a series of questions about the future of AI.