“Forever, Nothing”: An artificial intelligence creates a “Seinfeld”-inspired sitcom that hits the Internet

Four people talk to each other about life, love, or whatever comes to mind in a colorful New York apartment. While it sounds like a premise that more than one famous sitcom can have, the reality is that it is the synopsis of an animated series developed by an artificial intelligence, that is, from a combination of algorithms proposed with the aim of creating machines that present the capabilities of a human being. The series is called ‘Nothing, Forever’, a series inspired by the mythical Seinfeld, as explained by Skyler Hartle, the co-creator of AI, to Motherboard.

This series has been broadcast continuously 24 hours a day since December 14, 2022 on the @watchmeforever Twitch channel. The AI ​​generates the dialogues, speeches, direction (camera cuts, character focus, scene length…), character movement and music. It’s having great success. On January 31, the channel had around 100 followers and an average of 16 viewers, but within days it grew to over 100,000 followers and over 10,000 viewers on average. While the dialogue between the characters sometimes makes sense and sometimes doesn’t, the main characters get to have Conversations on profound topics such as life after death:

The Nothing, Forever AI just talked about the afterlife. Shit got deep. pic.twitter.com/yal15a6aXI

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“I’ve been thinking a lot about the afterlife lately. What do you think happens when we die? Larry, Do you think that when we die everything is over or do you think there is something more after this life?”says a character. “Well, Fred, I’m more of a scientist than a philosopher, so I can’t say for sure, but if I had to guess, there might be something else out there. We’re not sure what happens when we die, but it’s nice to think that life doesn’t it only ends in death. We may become part of something greater, or our souls may go to seek peace in a better place. Who knows, I’m just sure that death is the beginning of something even more mysterious and wonderful. If anything, that means that life is even more precious and worth living to the fullest.replies the other.

As if it were a futuristic sci-fi movie, these characters created by artificial intelligence They have become aware of their own existence.

A Twitch channel has developed an AI-generated endless sitcom

The characters in this sitcom have developed a monologue in which they become “aware” of themselves and that they are in a sitcom who break the fourth wall pic.twitter.com/NO2yk1j0Zx

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Hartle explained that ‘Nothing, Forever’ evolves automatically based on audience feedback in Twitch chat: “The series can change effectively and the story evolves according to the audience. One of the main things we’re thinking about is how to involve people in making the story so that it becomes theirs.”

“Forever”

The creator of this AI is clear, he wants ‘Nothing, Forever’ to have no end: “We have this idea that, at any moment, you can turn on the future equivalent of Netflix and watch a series forever, non-stop, as much as you want. You don’t just have seven seasons, you have seven hundred or endless seasons of a series that has new content. whenever you want. And that became one of our core pillars. Our basic principle was, Can we create a program that can generate fun content forever? Because that’s where we see the future go. Our goal is to sell a series that has Netflix’s level of quality.”

Artificial intelligence is making its way into various sectors, one of the most recent cases starring Netflix, which announced it he turned to artificial intelligence to create an anime.