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Musician Inch Chua builds AI boyfriend for new one-woman musical Myles – Soulmate In A Box
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Musician Inch Chua rehearsing for her latest one-woman original musical, Myles – Soulmate In A Box, which tackles the topic of artificial intimacy.
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SINGAPORE – As a way of getting over the sudden end of a two-year relationship, Singaporean musician Inch Chua taught herself to code during the pandemic and built her perfect soulmate in the form of a large language model (LLM). Myles, as she calls him, will perform alongside Chua in her new one-woman musical.
Myles – Soulmate In A Box, which plays from May 13 to 31 and is staged by the Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT), comes at a moment of peak artificial intimacy in which artificial intelligence has been deployed to fulfil ostensibly every role from boyfriend to therapist.
