Can AI write a script that even comes close to the work of Douglas Adams?
The story so far…
So I’ve asked ChatGPT (using GPT-4) to create a new chapter of the radio program, as a starting point.
Again this is not about my creative wrangling of AI to create something good.
My goal is to tease out AI’s existing ‘creativity’ — not tolayer my own creativity into AI as a medium
Here is the result
Is it any good?
It’s definitely average. Maybe better than I thought it would be, but if this is to be performed — the humor and tone would have to come from the actors bringing their personality to the roles and adding something between the lines.
Could this work as a filler episode between better episodes? Maybe. But it still lacks the wit and social commentary we’d expect from Douglas Adams.
I did fine this line from Marvin the Paranoid Android though:
I can’t find any reference to this joke online. If so, I think it counts as maybe the only truly comedic line in the piece.
Our journey continues…
You’d really want to start with the script as a strong foundation for this exercise in seeing how far we can get with an episode — but I’ll resist the temptation to poke and prod at ChatGPT until we get a better script. This is what it has delivered to us, and so we press on!
