AI.R Taletorium: Artificial Intelligence 1001 Cyber Nights

Abstract

AI.R Taletorium is an artificial intelligence-based collaborative learning environment based on Human-AI co-creation and social relationship development between users. AI.R Taletorium is designed to achieve a common creative experience between groups of users with different preferences, not necessarily at the same location. The system is built upon a character-centric interactive storytelling framework. AI follows users’ characteristics to transfer participants into the AI-generated story environment via avatars. Additionally, the multimodal interface helps users participate in the story creation and stimulate their perceptive and emotional engagement. In the 1001 Cyber Nights series of AI-created fairy tales, our focus is on the neural-network-based automated storytelling part of the AI.R Taletorium project. We are inspired by the 1001 Middle Eastern folk tales collection and Scheherazade, who fought for her life by telling stories for 1001 nights. We are using our AI.R Taletorium automated storytelling system to challenge AI creativity and imagination in creating fairy tales for children. As in the story of Scheherazade, we see this as a paradigm of AI’s creative effort toward its further emancipation.