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Alice and Bob, two robots, face each other across a bar table under warm light.
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Date More Human

AI-written dialogue for a Jose Cuervo film

> for jose cuervo · via espadaysantacruz · via mekanismai spot · 2021
01· the project
> A project for Jose Cuervo, with Mekanism and Espadaysantacruz.

A first date written by machines.

A film for Jose Cuervo in which two robots, Alice and Bob, go on a blind date and every line they say was written by AI. The robots were built by Engineered Arts; the conversation was ours, with Espadaysantacruz.

We gathered real dating conversations on Mechanical Turk, added survey answers and lines from film and TV, and trained conversational models on that corpus in Python with TensorFlow and ParlAI. They generated hundreds of first dates, and the script was picked from them.

> cat /works/date-more-human.md
TYPEAI SPOT
CLIENTJOSE CUERVO
AGENCYMEKANISM
STUDIOESPADAYSANTACRUZ
YEAR2021
LOCATIONUSA
built with
  • Python
  • TensorFlow
  • ParlAI
  • TTS
#aiCase video ↗
02· in numbers
2> robots on a blind date
3> sources: dates, surveys, screen
100s> of AI-generated conversations
03· how it works
Bob and Alice talk at the bar table, seen over Bob's shoulder.
01

Collect

Real dating conversations gathered on Mechanical Turk, with survey answers and lines from film and TV.

Bob, with glasses and red-lit eyes, faces Alice at the table.
02

Train

Several conversational models trained on that corpus, in Python with TensorFlow.

A list of first-date lines written by the models, such as 'Thank you so much! I really appreciate it.'
03

Generate

Hundreds of first-date conversations, from which the dialogue was chosen.

A wide shot of the bar set, with the two robots standing at a high table.
04

Shoot

Alice and Bob, two robots by Engineered Arts, perform the lines in the film for Jose Cuervo.

04· gallery
Alice, with a dark fringe and a green dress, laughs with glowing eyes.
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Bob, in glasses, a waistcoat and a tie, winks.
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Alice rolls her eyes.
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Bob smiles behind his glasses.
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A hand combs Alice's hair before a take.
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Two hands share food at the bar next to a bottle of Jose Cuervo Tradicional.
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05· credits
for jose cuervo. via espadaysantacruz. via mekanism. AI - ADS. 2021
06· references
01Case videovimeo.com ↗

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