Bernard Shaw, Automata, Robots and Artificial Intelligence

This book explores how Bernard Shaw intersects constructively with automata, robots and artificial intelligence (AI). He made use of automata and robots to advance his so-called Gospel of the Life Force and Creative Evolution. The founding fathers of artificial intelligence, including Alan Turing, appreciated Shaw’s works and made sense of his advocacy of the Life Force and Creative Evolution. Moreover, empirical analyses of Shavian texts and images by AI have uncovered possibilities for new interpretations, demonstrating how future renditions of Shaw’s works may make use of these advanced technologies to broaden Shaw’s audiences as well as his readership and scholarship.