AIBO – A Sicko AI Brainwave Opera

OpenAI created the algorithm GPT-(Generative Pretrained Transformer 2) (now GPT-3) in February 2019. The algorithm creates imitations of human dialogue producing fake but surprisingly realistic interactions. Using GPT-2, a ‘sicko’ AI was created as a live time entity running in the Google cloud. AIBO (Artificial Intelligent Brainwave Opera) was one of two characters, the other being a human wearing a brain computer interface, both part an emotionally intelligent artificial intelligent brainwave opera. The opera asked two questions - "Can an AI be fascist?" and "Can an AI have epigenetic, or inherited traumatic memory?" This paper discusses aspects involved in building the GPT-2 cloud-based character AIBO and its synthetic emotions in a performative spoken word opera.