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Fable unveils Showrunner AI to create South Park-like TV shows with you as the star

Fable, a San Francisco startup running a big project dubbed The Simulation, has released Showrunner AI technology, dubbed SHOW-1, which can generate new episodes of TV shows with you as the star. 

It’s another big step for generative AI, which has been on a tear for the last six months. And the timing is interesting, considering both writers and actors are on strike in Hollywood. ...

“Essentially, what the AI Showrunner does is create episodes of South Park for you. All of this is created by the AI Showrunner,” said Fable CEO Edward Saatchi, in an interview with GamesBeat. “Not just the dialogue. It animates, it does the voices, it does the editing. For the TV episodes, AI Showrunner can just generate episodes, or the user can create a prompt and create TV episodes based on a two-sentence prompt. People said AI can’t tell a story. Well, it can.” ...

Later in the year, Saatchi said the company will release the tools for The Simulation, the 3D world. People will be able to enter The Simulation, create simulations, and then Fable can create episodes automatically based on what has happened in the 3D world.

“What it does is solve a key problem for simulations, which is an infinite story,” Saatchi said. “We thought about Joseph Campbell and archetypes, trying to abstract some kind of baseline of what a story is. And I didn’t think that worked. So we kind of we figured out that TV is the best example of an infinite story.”

See the full article here: https://venturebeat.com/games/the-simulation-unveils-showrunner-ai-to-create-south-park-like-tv-shows-with-you-as-the-star/?fbclid=IwAR3b7zZmMAtohOYXXr9F5eq0WkdvSDELHhr4z-VIfqZjLKSoUWy5rkeyOKA