I think therefore I am: cutting-edge AI used to 'revive spirit' of French Mark Twain and spawn a new sharp…
- AI spent years learning how to imitate Molière’s theatrical voice
- Versailles hosted a machine-assisted comedy inspired by 17th-century French theatre
- Scholars rewrote AI-generated scenes thousands of times before public performances
A group of scholars at the Sorbonne University haVE spent two and a half years teaching artificial intelligence to think like Molière, a 17th-century playwright.
The French dramatist is often compared to Shakespeare or Mark Twain for his cultural weight, and although he died in 1673, his distinctive voice now fills a new three‑act comedy, L’Astrologue ou les Faux Présages, which premiered on May 6 and 7 2026.
The team fed a French AI tool called Le Chat with everything Molière wrote and extensive historical literary material, a process which involved roughly 20,000 exchanges between researchers, literature scholars, linguists, historians, and the machine.
A two‑hour experiment at Versailles
The play tells a classic Molière‑esque story. A wealthy Parisian father,...
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