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Hasbro Is Using AI to Bring Characters to Life - With Limits - CNET

Have you ever thought your day-to-day might be enhanced by a running commentary from Optimus Prime? Sixth Wall, the AI offshoot of Hasbro, has got great news for you.

Hold music replaced by chitchat with Mr. Monopoly, a digital personal assistant with the voice and personality of Megatron and maybe even the surreal experience of watching G.I. Joe episodes with Cobra Commander adding live, RiffTrax-style commentary could be coming soon.

It’s all part of a plan by Sixth Wall, an AI offshoot of Hasbro, to marry licensable characters with unlimited AI possibilities.

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“We started just testing internally,” Sixth Wall CEO Bertie Thomson told me in an interview following a media event in Los Angeles last week. “What would it look like if you took a Peppa Pig doll and rigged her with a Raspberry Pi and ElevenLabsand chatted back and forth, and it...

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