AI Vs Alfred Uhry: Who Drives Miss Daisy Better?

Abstract

Alfred Uhry’s short play Driving Miss Daisy was published in 1987 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama the very next year. In the following year it was adapted into a movie and it won four Academy Awards. Considering that among all the recent developments in Social Science, Arts and Science, it is AI that is raising the most question, this paper tries to evaluate whether it can replace the playwright while having the same impact on the readers. It does this by asking ChatGPT what changes it would make and then evaluating the responses. The intention was to prove that as far as art and literature is concerned, AI cannot replace the thinking and feeling human being.