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Edinburgh Science Festival at the SPL

11 March 2025

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Free to visit: Monday the 7th – Thursday the 17th of April. Mon-Thu, 10am-3pm.

Machine Whispers: Reading – Writing – Robots! is an interactive installation, which joins us as part of the Edinburgh Science Festival. It’s a critical yet creative (and fun!) exploration of reading and writing in the age of Artificial Intelligence. Use the power of poetry to confuse and befuddle our translation machine, become a best-selling author with LEX, our cheeky writing robot, or discover the cheapest poem in the world. Uncover the glitches behind AI’s glamour!

Machine Whispers consists of:

LEX-9000: HUMAN VERSES MACHINE, by Ray Interactive & Pip Thornton – more info here

LEX trailer: My Movie LEX on Vimeo

MACHINE WHISPERS, by Pip Thornton & Evan Morgan – more info here

THE WORD EXCHANGE, by Pip Thornton – more info here

Machine Whispers: machine whispers clip. Machine Whispers is funded by BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides), University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences, Design Informatics, CDCS & the Moray Endowment fund.

Free to visit: Monday the 7th – Thursday the 17th of April. Mon-Thu, 10am-3pm.

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