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- 1Taika Waititi jokes about swapping his kids for robots▼‘I’d consider replacing one of my children’: Taika Waititi on robot kids, his cheese-o-meter and Klara and the Sun
Filmmaker Taika Waititi, promoting his adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel 'Klara and the Sun', joked in an interview with The Guardian that he would 'consider replacing one of my children' with a robot. He also discussed a 'cheese-o-meter' for gauging sentimentality in the film, which follows an artificial friend and explores love between humans and machines.
- 2Robot joins Denver improv show to confront mortality on stage▼A robot entered a Denver comedy club. (This isn’t a joke.) What happens when a robot friend faces death? At a Denver improv performance, humans and robots talked it out, maybe for the first time
A robot took part in an improv comedy performance at a Denver club, performing alongside human actors in a segment exploring what it means for a robot to face death. The show featured unscripted conversations between people and the machine, in what organizers describe as possibly the first such exchange on a comedy stage. The event highlights growing public curiosity about AI in live performance and how humans relate to machines.