• Artificial intelligence uncovers lost work by titan of Spain’s ‘Golden Age’

    Artificial intelligence uncovers lost work by titan of Spain’s ‘Golden Age’
    Discovery of Lope de Vega play could lead to other important finds, researchers sayLost or misattributed works by some of the finest writers of Spain’s Golden Age could be discovered thanks to pioneering AI technology that has been used to identify a previously unknown play by the wildly prolific dramatist, poet, sailor and priest Lope de Vega.This week Spain’s National Library announced that researchers trawling its massive archive had stumbled upon and verified a play that Lope is
  • AI Seinfeld: the show about nothing is back – and now it’s written by robots

    AI Seinfeld: the show about nothing is back – and now it’s written by robots
    The surreal Nothing, Forever, streaming 24 hours a day, is an eerie experiment in digital creativitySeinfeld went off the air in 1998, but it’s never really gone away – it’s been the subject of modern recreations, dedicated social media accounts and hip-hop/TV fusions. Its latest incarnation, however, is the oddest yet.Nothing, Forever is an endless, AI-generated version of the show that has been streaming on Twitch since mid-December. It tells the “story” – i