Isla
Published on 18. October 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-1-350-28042-7 (ISBN)
Description
Do algorithms and machine learning set us free, or trap us forever?
Roger hates technology, but when his daughter gives him an Isla device for Lockdown 2020, he finds himself opening up to the virtual assistant device. What happens when the only fulfilling relationship you have is with a digital slave?
Isla asks what are the costs and benefits of machine learning...and do we want the AIs to learn from us?
This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Theatre Clwyd, in association with the Royal Court in October 2021.
Roger hates technology, but when his daughter gives him an Isla device for Lockdown 2020, he finds himself opening up to the virtual assistant device. What happens when the only fulfilling relationship you have is with a digital slave?
Isla asks what are the costs and benefits of machine learning...and do we want the AIs to learn from us?
This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Theatre Clwyd, in association with the Royal Court in October 2021.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
91 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-28042-7 (9781350280427)
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Tim Price is a Welsh playwright and screenwriter. His plays include For Once, Salt Root and Roe (winner of Best English Language playwright at the Theatre Critics of Wales Award), Demos, The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning (winner of the James Tait Black prize for drama), I'm With the Band, Protest Song and The Internet Is Serious Business. He is associate playwright at the Traverse theatre and co-founder of Welsh new writing company Dirty Protest.