Alan Ayckbourn was ahead of the curve in predictions of AI-created TV soaps | Letters

Yvonne Whalley on the rise of AI actors. Plus a letter from Mike Peacock on Donald’s Sinden’s Othello

So, the TV director James Hawes has told parliament’s culture, media, and sport committee that within three to five years, soaps will be created by artificial intelligence (TV soaps could be made by AI within three years, director warns, 22 February). He is, of course, not the first to make this prediction. Alan Ayckbourn’s Comic Potential, first performed at the …

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