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The Future is Here, But the Dialogue is Unclear Â
Spoiler alert: Todayâs Watch isnât an ad. Well, perhaps it is advertising somethingâwhat happens when a short film screenplay is written entirely by AI.
Maybe youâve seen the results for AI-named paint colors that were released last spring⊠From âSnowbonkâ to âBank Buttâ to âBurple Simp,â the names were hilariously incoherent.
Well, that is definitely what happened with âSunspring,â a short science fiction film made for the 2016 SCI-FI-LONDON 48hr Film Challenge. The challenge here is that the screenplay was entered through a recurrent neural network called long short-term memory, or LSTM.
And while it has all the making of a Sci-Fi B Movie (see: shiny outfits, glowing portals, space?, love triangles), the dialogue makes 0 sense. Real words are spoken, yes. Coherent conversation, no. Honestly, it is truly laugh-inducing and incredibly charming.
Benjaminâthatâs the name the AI gave itselfâyou have won our hearts.
“Even when you are marketing to your entire audience, you are still simply speaking to a single human at any given time.”
Ann Handley
