If artificial intelligence can simulate a dead loved one\u00a0\u2014 responding in their voice to new information and scenarios\u00a0\u2014 maybe it can also help solve a dead loved one\u2019s disappearance. After all, AI excels at scouring vast amounts of data for patterns.<\/p>\n
In \u201cAnthropology,\u201d now in a City Lights Theater Company production, AI expert Merril (Maria Marquis) couldn\u2019t resist the temptation to recreate her sister, Angie.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI just miss you, terribly, terribly, horribly, awfully much,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
To accomplish that, she feeds all the real Angie\u2019s data to the AI version of Angie (Tiffany Cartagena)\u00a0\u2014 \u201cEvery text, email, voicemail. Search history, calls, FaceTime, calendar invites, purchases, returns\u2026 the likes, hearts, retweets, comments.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
But now robot Angie wants to use that same data to figure out what happened to human Angie 13 months ago.<\/p>\n
A principal pleasure of Lauren Gunderson\u2019s script, whose Northern California premiere is directed by Lisa Mallette, is the profanity-laden banter between the sisters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDunno what you mean but it seems like a you problem,\u201d robot Angie says early on. \u201cWhich is why you should not talk to me about your mental health because I\u2019m just going to tell you to take drugs and watch movies, OK.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If artificial intelligence can simulate a dead loved one\u00a0\u2014 responding in their voice to new information and scenarios\u00a0\u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,5415,970,19339,5126,781,19338],"class_list":{"0":"post-29476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-arts-and-entertainment","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-datebook-pick","13":"tag-south-bay","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-theater"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}