Automatically generate fictional episodes with AI and deliver podcasts

ByPatrick Breitenbach

Distributing audio data on the Internet as a radio program feeling "PodcastAttempts to automatically generate it using artificial intelligence (AI) are being made. What AI creates is "a fictitious episode by a fictitious character", as if it were an episode of a real person, AI is skillfully spinning the story.

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The AI ​​to automatically generate episodes is named "SHELDON", and the created audio data is distributed by podcast. This AIUniversity of CaliforniaIt is said that it was a program created by Mr. James Ryan student.

SHELDON is to automatically generate fictitious characters and episodes that live in rural areas of the United States. The generated characters individually have their own will, goals, values, and they sometimes interact with each other among the characters.

When SHELDON creates episodes, it seems that there are cases when new characters appear during episode. SHELDON seems to recognize it as one character even if it is only a minor role character, and there is a possibility that either will generate an episode which made this new character the hero.

According to Mr. Ryan, "These characters can hold a meeting and discuss the new bill and vote for it, and after seeing the bill passed, you will see how the town where the character lives will look like I will be able to do it. "I reveal that the fictitious characters leave Mr. Ryan's hands and making their own stories.

ByScott Maxwell

The pilot version of "SHELDON" already exists at the time of article creationSoundCloudPublish podcasts on top, you can watch a story by a fictitious person living in a specific area. Furthermore, in the future, we will distribute different stories for each residential area of ​​the listener and aim to become a regional podcast.

You can listen to podcasts currently delivered by SHELDON from the following.

Episode 1: A Nothing Place by James Ryan


Mr. Ryan said that he is currently writing a paper on SHELDON and is planning to deliver only a specific episode as a pilot version for a while. It is said that writing of the paper is scheduled to end around the summer of 2018 and tells us that we can release SHELDON 's beta version in the beginning of 2019.