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Show HN: Nothing, Forever – a streaming, AI-generated, always-on television show

15 pointsby skytrueover 2 years ago
Hey everybody, we&#x27;re finally launching our always-on, generative show -- Nothing, Forever -- streaming on Twitch. Nothing, Forever is a parody of &#x27;90s sitcoms, done in the style of &#x27;90s point-and-click PC games (but, you know, in 3D). We set out to build something weird, new, and novel, and this is what we ended up with.<p>Aside from the artwork and the laugh track you&#x27;ll hear, everything else is generative, including: dialogue, speech, direction (camera cuts, character focus, shot length, scene length, etc), character movement, and music.<p>Nothing, Forever is built using a combination of machine learning, generative algorithms (we use &#x27;generative&#x27; here in a non-academic sense), and cloud services. Our stack is mostly comprised of Python + TensorFlow for our ML models, TypeScript + Azure Functions and Heroku for our backend, and C# + Unity for the client, with some neural voice APIs thrown into the mix.<p>Heading into the future, we plan to leverage OpenAI&#x27;s davinci models for our dialogue -- we actually have an integration already, but the cost is too prohibitive to run full time -- as well as leveraging Stable Diffusion for art generation.<p>We&#x27;re launching an experimental media lab, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mismatchmedia.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mismatchmedia.com&#x2F;</a> along with the show, for follow-up projects in the future.<p>Feel free to reach out to me personally if you have any questions or want to discuss more, skyler at mismatchmedia dotcom.

3 comments

phillipseamoreover 2 years ago
That&#x27;s 15 minutes I&#x27;m never getting back - and I&#x27;m fine with!<p>Love the idea and the execution is spot-on.<p>Hate Seinfeld, love Nothing, forever.
sn0w_crashover 2 years ago
This is really cool. I think this can soon replace the writers room at Disney
ffsoftboiledover 2 years ago
This is fascinating!