An AI wrote a sci-fi short film by learning from 90s screenplays
Jun10
on June 10, 2016
at 6:07 am
Posted In: AI, Around the Web, Benajmin, Film, Insider, movie, Oscar Sharp, Ross Goodwin, Sunspring, Thomas Middleditch
We’ve previously reported how AI is developing rapidly and gaining the ability to do things like defeat human champions at the game of Go, describe photos in words for vision-impaired users, detect cyber attacks and even write novels and financial reports. That’s old hat – there’s now an AI that can write screenplays. It’s named itself Benjamin and its first film, a sci-fi short, has just been released on YouTube for the world to enjoy. ‘Sunspring’ was directed by Oscar Sharp and stars Silicon Valley’s Thomas Middleditch. It was made for the 48-Hour Film Challenge at the Sci-Fi London festival.…
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