Watch this cool science fiction film written by an AI
Ars Technica is hosting the online debut of Sunspring, a movie that was written by an artificial intelligence.
“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,” said Ars Technica.
An LSTM recurrent neural network is a type of AI that is often used for text recognition.
Director Oscar Sharp teamed up with an AI researcher at New York University, Ross Goodwin, to use an artificial intelligence to develop the screenplay.
To train the neural network, Goodwin used existing sci-fi screenplays.
According to the film makers, the AI was given the following prompts:
- Title: Sunspring
- Dialogue: It may never be forgiven, but that is just too bad.
- Prop & action: A character pulls a book from a shelf, flips through it and puts it back.
- Optional science idea: In a future of mass unemployment, young people are forced to sell blood.
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