What happens when you take the scripts from dozens of sci-fi movies and TV series, and feed them (along with a couple of seed prompts) into a long short-term memory recurrent neural network? You get this bizarre screenplay, with dialogue for three characters (named H, H, and C -- one of the H's had to be renamed H2) and stage directions like
C
Well, I have to go to the skull. I
don't know.
He picks up a light screen and fights the security force of
the particles of a transmission on his face.
Director Oscar Sharp assembled a cast and crew (including Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch) and produced the screenplay as a short film. The results are ... well, just watch:
Ars Technica has a fascinating story on the making of the movie and the AI who wrote the screenplay. Benjamin (the name the AI gave itself) even chimes in in the comment section.
That's all from us this week. We'll be back next week, live from from the useR! conference in Stanford. See you there!
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