Why The Andy Warhol Diaries Recreated the Artist's Voice With AI

Back in 1982, Andy Warhol was, somewhat infamously, turned into a robot. The machine was made by a Disney Imagineering veteran for a project that never really took off, but Warhol liked his animatronic self. "Machines have less problems," he once said. "I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?" The artist, who died in 1987, was a master of his own cult of personality, and the robot was practically a manifestation of how the world perceived him: meticulously crafted, if a bit rigid and monotone in his conversational style.