1. Listen to an audiobook excerpt of a multicast recording of Clem Martini's original script, "The Totalizator." This is a full dramatic reading of The Totalizator, produced for the audiobook "Ascenti: Humans Opening to AI."
Cast: Julian Hobson plays The Devil's Accountant; Lorene Shyba plays The Inocuous Intern; John Heerema plays Primus and his second head, Primus Two."
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2. In this video below, Clem Martini and Mike Czuba perform a snippet from "Takeover in Hell," an AI-written version of The Totalizator.
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3. The AI spinoff "Takeover in Hell" was recreated by Lorene Shyba for her chapter on AI and Audiobook Performance Believability.
She could not find English AI voices that sounded angry and devilish enough, so Russian AI voices were used, along with English AI voice translation and intro.
About Clem Martini
Clem Martini is a celebrated playwright, novelist, and screenwriter with over thirty plays, and thirteen books of fiction and nonfiction to his credit. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada, a recipient of the ATB Financial Healing through the Arts Award and a Professor of Drama in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary. His book Cantata & The Extinction Therapist: Two Plays, Published by Durvile & UpRoute is a finalist for the 2024 W.O. Mitchell Award.
Says Clem, "I employ technology, but only to a limited degree. I compose and write in my computer. I send communication through the internet, and I develop my scripts and stories. My understanding of how technology actually operates is limited, however, and I have a number of serious reservations regarding the impact technology has had on contemporary society. I also have some substantial concerns about how AI will be employed in the future."
“The cultural and artistic roles of AI have received little attention so far. The Ascenti book is a welcome opening in that direction. It deals with AI used in creating visual arts, literature, and computer games, and analyzes both the new opportunities and limitations in these areas.” —Frans Mäyrä, PhD, Researcher of Culture and Society
