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I wonder what an AI trained with Tolkien books would produce.

The other day there was this Seinfeld joke telling AI and it was really good. I wonder if this could be done for dead authors, I would "kill" for a Gene Roddenberry Star Trek again in line with TNG.

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Check out Star Trek: Strange New Worlds!! Nothing like the other “new trek” shows (Discovery/Picard) which I couldn’t finish because they felt nothing like Trek to me. SNW follows the moral/philosophical issue of the week format with lite tie ins between episodes. Very happy so far

Seconded. SNW is very much a return to the style of TOS and TNG. Strongly recommended for people who prefer those two over everything that came after them.

Thirded. SNW has been a delight. It feels like Star Trek, which most of the other series, regardless of their relative merits, do not.

For me the most "trek" modern series is oorville, despite being a mcfarlane production.

SNW piqued my interest though.

Agreed. If you can get past the first few episodes which are much more broad comedy, they get less and less sitcom and more and more pure trek.

SNW really brings Trek back to its roots. Absolutely worth watching, particularly if you're a fan of The Orville (which I am as well).

The obstacle here is probably consistency in long form writing. Even in short form writing, AI often jumps around and introduces new elements while ignoring old ones. New models that retain a sort of plot memory are necessary for long form generated writing.

I think you do not need to wait that long for marketed AI written synquels. (I just made this up for "synthetic sequel").

It will be very interesting to see how exactly this is marketed and how big the market for such product will be.

Sequels, spin-offs are alle the rage, but B-Sides, lost tracks or unpublished material are less mainstream.

https://youtu.be/1onxri0duN0 is this the Seinfield AI you were talking about? Wow that legitimately impressed me. If that last joke was actually original and not present anywhere in it's training data, then AI is farther along than I thought

Edit: ah looks like it was posted on hackernews a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31788976

I've been looking forward to the AI generated movie for a while now. I'm hopeful that, before I die, I'll get to see a book-faithful movie without the goofiness of the official version.

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