Weekend Review - First AI Generated Screenplay Results in a Decent Short
Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch stars in AI Generated Sunspring In the wake of Google’s AI Go victory and recent rematch ask , filmmaker Oscar Sharp turned to his technologist collaborator, Ross Goodwin, to build a machine that could write screenplays. They created ‘Jetson’ ,which the AI system renamed itself Benjamin, an LSTM (Long Short Term Memory) system and fueled him with hundreds of sci-fi TV and movie scripts. Building a team including Thomas Middleditch , star of HBO’s Silicon Valley , they gave themselves 48 hours to shoot and edit whatever Jetson decided to write. The result is Sunspring , a sci-fi short film starring Thomas Middleditch. Ars Technica channel on the The Scene has the film showing now. The Nerdy crew screened this nine min short, actually many times, because it was a little hard to get your head around it. In the beginning, the filmmaker - Oscar Sharp, tells the viewer that they fed movie...