Love’s Labours Won: Shakespeare and AI
Sir Jonathan Bate shares his recent experiments with trying to commission rival AI programmes to compose the missing Shakespeare comedy ‘Love’s Labours Won’.
The Shakespeare Institute’s Thursday seminars, held every week during the teaching term, continue to attract major international figures in Shakespeare studies, along with emerging researchers and important theatre practitioners. Recently Professor Sir Jonathan Bate came to the Institute to share his recent experiments with trying to commission rival AI programmes to compose the missing Shakespeare comedy ‘Love’s Labours Won’.
Should we be depressed that the computers found it so much easier to fake the styles of Shakespearean scholars than that of Shakespeare? And what does the exercise prove about the nature and status of creativity itself in the modern world?