Movie Written By Algorithm Turns Out To Be Hilarious and Intense (arstechnica.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Ars is excited to be hosting this online debut of Sunspring, a short science fiction film that's not entirely what it seems. It's about three people living in a weird future, possibly on a space station, probably in a love triangle. You know it's the future because H (played with neurotic gravity by Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch) is wearing a shiny gold jacket, H2 (Elisabeth Gray) is playing with computers, and C (Humphrey Ker) announces that he has to "go to the skull" before sticking his face into a bunch of green lights. It sounds like your typical sci-fi B-movie, complete with an incoherent plot. Except Sunspring isn't the product of Hollywood hacks -- it was written entirely by an AI. To be specific, it was authored by a recurrent neural network called long short-term memory, or LSTM for short. At least, that's what we'd call it. The AI named itself Benjamin. The report goes on to mention that the movie was made by Oscar Sharp for the annual film festival Sci-Fi London. You can watch the short film (~10 min) on The Scene here.

Comments

Utter shite.

[Anonymous Coward]

But I've seen worse on Netflix.

At least this was mercifully short (though I still couldn't finish it).

Here's the actual screenplay

[quantaman]

Since it's not really clear from the video here's a link to the screenplay.

It's looks more or less what you'd expect a screenplay written by a chatbot trained on screenplays to look like.

Just be glad they didn't give the assignment to Microsoft's Tay.

Re: When is it "life"?

[dunkelfalke]

Not the writers are getting dumber, the movie consumers are. The writers just cater to them.