The Future of Entertainment

James Ryan is working on a project that plays a podcast that is different for everyone. The podcast is called "Sheldon's County", and to listen to it, the person must first input a random number. This would start-up a process that creates random characters, relationships, and everything else that would make a juicy story. This would then be turned into text, which would be read by a voice synthesizer.  Surprisingly, for his project, Ryan turns to old-fashioned AI techniques that guide the process through a set of rules and instructions instead of modern AI techniques. He says that modern AI techniques are not as helpful because they are more about mining data to look for patterns (deep learning). Although Sheldon's County is still very young in progress, it shows us a glimpse of what the future of entertainment might look like.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/11/17099578/ai-generated-podcast-procedural-storytelling-art-sheldon-county