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   Oct 26, 2024 · This summer, Ayad Akhtar was struggling with the final scene of “McNeal,” his knotty and disorienting play about a Nobel Prize-winning author who uses artificial intelligence to write a novel.

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   15 hours ago · This summer, Ayad Akhtar was struggling with the final scene of Mcneal, his knotty and disorienti­ng play about a Nobel Prize-winning author who uses artificial intelligen­ce to write a novel. He wanted the title character, played by Robert Downey Jr in his Broadway debut, to deliver a monologue that sounded like a computer wrote it.

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   6 days ago · Ultimately, Akhtar used only two of the chatbot’s lines. But his attempt to mimic A.I.-generated text — an oddly circular process of a human imitating a computer’s imitation of a human — had an uncanny effect: Downey’s delivery of the final speech feels both intimate and strangely disembodied.

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   Oct 16, 2024 · In conversation, Akhtar is friendly and direct, revealing a few of his fast-moving play’s literary Easter eggs and explaining why he could never choose between writing drama and fiction.

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   21 hours ago · This summer, Ayad Akhtar was struggling with the final scene of McNeal, his knotty and disorienting play about a Nobel Prize-winning author who uses artificial intelligence to write a novel. He wanted the title character, played by Robert Downey Jr in his Broadway debut, to deliver a monologue that sounded like a computer wrote it.

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   Oct 17, 2024 · This was his first thought after reading the script for McNeal, the gripping new play by Ayad Akhtar starring the actor and currently running at the Lincoln Center Theater.

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   Who is Ayad Akhtar?

   • Ayad Akhtar is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Steinberg Playwrighting Award, the Nestroy Award, and the Erwin Piscator Award. He has also received fellowships from the American Academy in Rome, MacDowell, the Sundance Institute, and Yaddo, where he serves as a Board Director. Additionally, Akhtar is a Board Trustee at PEN/America and New York Theatre Workshop.

   The Who & The What: A Play by Ayad Akhtar

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   How does Akhtar treat AI as an existential threat to human creativity?

   • Akhtar treats A.I. not as an existential threat to human creativity, but as a potential prosthetic enhancement to it. Erik Tanner for The New York Times For Akhtar, a key challenge in writing “McNeal” was figuring out how a chatbot would write it.

   How a Play About A.I. Lured Robert Downey Jr. to Broadway

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   Does Akhtar Trust a chatbot?

   • Though McNeal comes to embrace A.I. wholeheartedly by the final act, after writing the play, Akhtar remains more ambivalent. Part of him still doesn’t fully trust the technology. Even when he was trying to coax a chatbot to write McNeal’s final speech, Akhtar stopped short of uploading the full text, he said.

   How a Play About A.I. Lured Robert Downey Jr. to Broadway

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   Why did Akhtar write a monologue?

   • He wanted the title character, played by Robert Downey Jr. in his Broadway debut, to deliver a monologue that sounded like a computer wrote it. So Akhtar uploaded what he had written into ChatGPT, gave the program a list of words, and told it to produce a speech in the style of Shakespeare.

   How a Play About A.I. Lured Robert Downey Jr. to Broadway

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   Did Akhtar create the illusion he was writing the play?

   • The German novelist and playwright Daniel Kehlmann, who read a draft of the play and has seen it twice, said he was stunned by how Akhtar created the illusion that A.I. was writing the play.

   How a Play About A.I. Lured Robert Downey Jr. to Broadway

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   Does Akhtar Trust technology?

   • The audience feedback has been more reassuring, Akhtar said. The show has had a sold-out run, and demand remains high. Though McNeal comes to embrace A.I. wholeheartedly by the final act, after writing the play, Akhtar remains more ambivalent. Part of him still doesn’t fully trust the technology.

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9. www.theatrereviews.com › broadway-review-mcneal-atBroadway Review: “McNeal” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater ...

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   Oct 7, 2024 · “McNeal,” currently on at the Vivan Beaumont Theater, is playwright Ayad Akhtar’s exploration into the unexpected confluence of plagiarism, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the canon of western literature through the life and writing of renowned playwright Jacob McNeal (a cantankerous but magnetic Robert Downing Jr) who is, at the play ...