China’s CCTV airs first AI-generated cartoon series

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China’s state TV broadcaster aired an AI-created cartoon series, Qianqiu Shisong, starting on Monday, with the 26-episode series a “two-way run-through of Chinese poetry and artificial intelligence,” according to a statement by show partner Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) on its official WeChat account. The cartoon draws inspiration from classic Chinese poems to narrate its storyline, and aspects of production – from art design to video generation and post-production – are supported by China Media’s CMG Media GPT and Shanghai AI Lab’s technology, the article stated. The debut of the series comes days after the state-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission called on SOEs to accelerate the layout and development of China’s artificial intelligence industry. [Shanghai AI Lab, in Chinese]Related