Review: "Bioadapted" - and Its Audience - Interrogate A.I.
Bioadapted Created and directed by Tjaša Ferme Assistant directed by Nasay Ano Written by James Yu, Alexis Roblan, and Tjaša Ferme and sourced from various transcripts Presented by Transforma Theatre at Culture Lab LIC 5-25 46th Ave., Queens, NYC September 7-24, 2023 BIOADAPTED, featuring Melody Munitz and Arianne Banda. Photo Credit: Dinara Khairova Conversations about A.I. have become mainstream if not inescapable, particularly in regard to large language models and their existing or potential effects in areas ranging from education to art and performance to journalism to climate collapse. Bioadapted , created by award-winning actor, playwright, and creator Tjaša Ferme and making its world premiere at Culture Lab LIC, generates its own wide-ranging consideration of A.I., melding fiction and verbatim text from real panels, interviews, and even a published essay composed by GPT-3 itself. The thought-provoking, the humorous, and the dystopian rub disembodied shoulders as Bioadapted im...