Matylda For
Czech Television, Tyl created a digital persona called
Matylda for the 2021 election superdebate, which asked politicians unusual questions. To create the questions,
Matylda was given the programmes of parties, movements and coalitions concerning the future and digitalisation, as well as the biographies of the individual chairmen. The project was met with critical feedback on social media.
Digital philosopher In the autumn of 2019, the
Digital Philosopher project was created as part of the Contemporary Philosophy course taught at the
Faculty of Arts of Charles University, in collaboration with Dita Malečková and students of the Faculty of Arts of Charles University.
Digital Philosophers are programs based on deep neural networks that have thoroughly studied the works of famous philosophers and try to think like them. The aim was to interconnect artificial intelligence and philosophy in a university setting. In addition to
Václav Havel, other thinkers such as
Hannah Arendt,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the economist
Tomáš Sedláček were created as a part of the project. The generated personalities are available online for ordinary users to test out.
Digital writer A
digital writer is an artificial intelligence algorithm (a neural network combining
GPT-3 and Deep Tree technologies) that creates its own literary texts by studying thousands of books and other publications by human authors. It was created by Dita Malečková in cooperation with Jan Tyl and a team of IT specialists in 2020. The research group focused on the architecture of the algorithms used to generate the literary texts. Thus, they taught the neural network to build a consistent story. Engineers, experts in machine learning and audiovisual technologies, students of the Institute of
New Media Studies at the
Faculty of Arts of Charles University and writers all collaborated on the project. The ''Digital Writer's
works appeared on Czech Radio, where he wrote a series of five short stories - a science fiction, a love story, a detective story, a horror and a historical novel. His work also appeared in Salon of Law'', where AI created two appendices on the subject of "home" in the style of salon short story cycles.
DigiHavel Jan Tyl has been working on the
DigiHavel project since 2021.
DigiHavel is a digital human inspired by the Czech president
Václav Havel. It is the first digital human - an artificial intelligence - used in Czech schools, which pupils talk to during civics lessons using an interactive web application. The aim is to modernize Czech education, to teach children to think, ask questions and verify facts, and above all to educate them about freedom,
democracy and
human rights.
DigiHavel represents the personality of Václav Havel, spreads his ideas and opinions and enables students to develop digital competence.
DigiHavel is a joint project of the
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Alpha Industries and the Department of Civic Education of the Faculty of Education of
Masaryk University, under the umbrella of the
Odpovědné občanství project. As of 2022, the project is in the phase of pilot testing in
civic education classes in selected schools. From January 2023, other schools from the Czech Republic can also participate in the project. The DigiHavel school programme is suitable for high-schools, multi-year grammar schools and secondary schools. == Popularisation of artificial intelligence ==