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Midjourney does Improv – Classic scene setups

Continuing our journey with improv related prompts for large language models, we though it might be a good idea to see if Midjourney (read: the internet collective conscious) understands the subtleties of improv. We chose four classisc scene setups and let Midjourney...

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ChatGPT does Improv – The Love Doctors

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot developed by the company OpenAI. Built on the text of the web and large language models, ChatGPT can hold knowledgable conversions based on the information it has been provided. Whether that knowledge is accurate is debatable. This blog post...

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Mindfulness and Improvisation

We keep an eye out for improvisation research, and once in a while the mainstream media does too. The day after our last newsletter went out in June, the ABC — the Australian one, not the U.S. one — published an interesting article on the history of sports psychology,...

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Don’t ask questions, myths and legends

That old chestnut of questions in theatrical improvisation scenes has popped up a number of times over the years, and seems to be doing the rounds of our local community yet again. Like many theatrical improvisation techniques, it’s either taught wrong in early levels...

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Children and improvisation

In December 2017, The Sydney Morning Herald published a story about how playful parents can prevent anxious kids. How do parents become more playful? And what does this mean for children and improvisation? Improvisors know very well. In the last 10 years, research...

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Improvisation 101 classes for March 2018

We’ve just announced our Improvisation 101 improv classes for March 2018. We’re running two: one in Gordon on Tuesdays starting 6 March, and one in Chatswood on Thursdays starting 8 March. Both classes run for 4 weeks, on either Tuesday or Thursday evenings from 7pm...

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