Cinematic, Ambient, Inhabitable Narrative Environments: Story Systems in Search of an Artificial Intelligence Engine

Cinematic, Ambient, Inhabitable Narrative Environments (CAINEs) are conceptual AI-driven interactive story systems combining text, audio, and visual imagery that are scalable and adaptable to a wide range of storytelling needs and interactor inputs. Conceived by at artist outside the AI community, they represent an opportunity to use AI in a nontraditional and immersive narrative fashion that relies not on the goal-based arrangement of story elements, but on the accretion and association of those elements in the minds of interactors. This paper represents the initial phase of the project’s development.