Overview
- Situates Shaw within the development of AI
- Delves into the fascinating world of automata and explores how Shaw was influenced by them
- Reveals how Shaw studies can benefit from AI functionalities, including virtual reality and ChatGPT
Part of the book series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries (BSC)
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About this book
This project is the first to explore how Bernard Shaw intersects constructively with automata, robots and artificial intelligence (AI). Shaw was born in the golden age of the automaton. His Bible on the Life Force and Creative Evolution, Back to Methuselah, was written when Karel and Josef Čapek coined the word “robot.” Shaw’s life ran in parallel with the rise of AI, and the big names in AI were his contemporaries. Moreover, empirical analyses of Shavian texts and images using AI uncovers possibilities for new interpretations, demonstrating how future renditions of his works may make use of these advanced technologies to broaden Shaw’s audience, readership and scholarship.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kay Li is an established Shaw scholar and Adjunct Professor in the Department of English at University of Toronto, Canada. She is one of the founding members of the International Shaw Society, is the Project Leader of the SAGITTARIUS–ORION Digitizing Project on Bernard Shaw funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Arts and Artificial Intelligence project funded by Canadian Heritage. Her books include Bernard Shaw and China: Cross-Cultural Encounters (2007) and Bernard Shaw’s Bridges to Chinese Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Kay has also published many articles in peer-reviewed journals, especially in SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bernard Shaw, Automata, Robots, and Artificial Intelligence
Authors: Kay Li
Series Title: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49226-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49225-9Published: 04 January 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49228-0Due: 04 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-49226-6Published: 03 January 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-5811
Series E-ISSN: 2634-582X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 141
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Theatre and Performance Studies, Theatre History, Artificial Intelligence, Science and Technology Studies