{"id":211969,"date":"2026-05-11T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/moliere-ex-machina-ai-used-to-create-new-work-by-beloved-french-playwright-ai-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:45:07","slug":"moliere-ex-machina-ai-used-to-create-new-work-by-beloved-french-playwright-ai-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/moliere-ex-machina-ai-used-to-create-new-work-by-beloved-french-playwright-ai-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Moli\u00e8re Ex Machina: AI used to create \u2018new work\u2019 by beloved French playwright | AI (artificial intelligence)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2026\/may\/11\/moliere-ex-machina-ai-create-new-work-france-equivalent-shakespeare\">Moli\u00e8re Ex Machina: AI used to create \u2018new work\u2019 by beloved French playwright | AI (artificial intelligence)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2026\/may\/11\/moliere-ex-machina-ai-create-new-work-france-equivalent-shakespeare\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2026\/may\/11\/moliere-ex-machina-ai-create-new-work-france-equivalent-shakespeare<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-11 08:36:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theguardian.com\">www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moli\u00e8re&#8217;s style has been revived using artificial intelligence (AI) by scholars at Sorbonne University in Paris for an experimental play titled <em>L\u2019Astrologue ou les Faux Pr\u00e9sages (The Astrologer, or False Omens)<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The AI tool, Le Chat, collaborated with a team of researchers including artists and linguists, creating a dialogue, music, costumes, and scenery inspired by Moli\u00e8re\u2019s style.<\/li>\n<li>The production, called Moli\u00e8re Ex Machina, involved about 20,000 exchanges between researchers and the AI, demonstrating the &#8220;intellectual ping pong&#8221; required to develop the play.<\/li>\n<li>The experiment successfully created a believable dialogue as noted by critics, raising discussions about the current relevance of astrology and manipulation.<\/li>\n<li>Plans are in place to perform the play across France and internationally, with the aim of demonstrating creative collaboration between AI and human authors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moli\u00e8re Ex Machina: AI used to create \u2018new work\u2019 by beloved French playwright | AI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7aaf595151330540fbd05c6c1ef47152525114db\/413_0_4674_3740\/master\/4674.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=507213f29cc8830e7fba55293c51bdf8","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-211969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211971,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211969\/revisions\/211971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}