The BBC used AI (and an actor) to bring Agatha Christie to life for its writing masterclass series

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Another week down, Insiders. Jesse Whittock is with you again to guide you through the biggest and most important TV and film news. Sign up for the newsletter here. Seeing AI To AI AI-gatha: Though her works have been the basis of tonnes of TV shows and films, the life of Agatha Christie was shrouded […]

The BBC used AI (and an actor) to bring Agatha Christie to life for its writing masterclass series

The BBC announced a new addition to its Maestro series of masterclasses, featuring its first posthumous teacher, Agatha Christie, presenting her writing tips in 4K video. The best-selling author of literature in human history teaches an 11-lesson course on writing mysteries, and the BBC seems very aware of the issues circling AI, which provokes a mix of intrigue and, honestly, wariness. Christie, who died in 1976, has had her likeness composited…

Mashable: BBC and Agatha Christie estate respond to ‘deepfake’ controversy | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Mashable: BBC and Agatha Christie estate respond to ‘deepfake’ controversy. “On Wednesday, BBC Maestro — a similar service to Masterclass — launched a new writing course taught by the best-selling novelist of all time. There’s a catch: the author, genre-defining mystery writer Agatha Christie, died 50 years ago, and was thus unavailable to participate. Instead, BBC Maestro used an actress and artificial intelligence to recreate Christie, drawing…

Crime Queen’s London life

Queen of crime writers, Agatha Christie, has been a lifelong passion for actor, art historian and London Blue Badge tour guide Simon Whitehouse and later this month he will lead “armchair detectives” from ArtsNational Noosa as they follow a trail of clues left by the author all over London. During her long and eventful life (she was 85 when she died) she became the most prolific detective novelist during the “Golden Age of Detective Fiction” (19…

The BBC Used AI To Let Agatha Christie Give An Online Writing Course (in Her Own Words) - Stuff South Africa

Agatha Christie is one of the world’s most enduring mystery fiction writers. Her books remain in print, the movies keep Kenneth Branagh employed, and now Christie herself is back to teach writers, courtesy of the BBC. Well, courtesy of the BBC and artificial intelligence (AI), since Christie died in 1975. But, like a character in one of her novels, she has returned from the dead. This time, it’s less of a mystery. The BBC’s Maestro-stroke As par…