an artificially intelligent opera
Composer Matthew Suttor, and an international team of theatre designers and computer programmers, are creating an opera about Artificial Intelligence.
I AM ALAN TURING draws on cryptography, mathematics, AI, and Turing’s fascination with natural patterns in the universe, to present a new model for creating opera in the age of information.
The team have trained an instance of Open AI’s GPT2 natural language model on everything Turing wrote and read in his life and collaborate with this Turing-esque model to generate the libretto.
Music is created by analog synthesisers sequenced to reproduce mathematical series like the Prime and Fibonacci numbers, while visual design is drawn from Turing's later discoveries of the chemical basis for life - morphogenesis.
I AM ALAN TURING leverages artificial intelligence to understand what it means to be human.
Are you ready to take the test?