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Sunspring | A Sci-Fi Short Film Starring Thomas Middleditch

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A sci-fi short film starring Thomas Middleditch with a screenplay written entirely by an LSTM recurrent neural network.

In the wake of Google's AI Go victory, filmmaker Oscar Sharp turned to his technologist collaborator Ross Goodwin to build a machine that could write screenplays. They created "Jetson" 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. Hear the original song here: soundcloud.com/tigerandman/home-on-the-land Connect with Ars Technica: Visit ArsTechnica.com: arstechnica.com Follow Ars Technica on Facebook: facebook.com/arstechnica Follow Ars Technica on Google+: plus.google.com/+ArsTechnica/videos Follow Ars Technica on Twitter: twitter.com/arstechnica Sunspring | A Sci-Fi Short Film Starring Thomas Middleditch an End Cue Production

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What people say. Recommended as an early example of AI-generated creative writing and screenplaying.

drewwwwwwon Hacker News • Recommends

On “iGAN – Deep learning software that generates images with a few brushstrokes”

Check out this rather entertaining talk from GitHub universe about the use of an LSTM to generate a film script: link and the short film they made, using that script: link to this video (disclosure: i work for github on events/AV)
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thegeomasteron Hacker News • Disputes

On “Show HN: RNN that generates Game of Thrones text”

I guess this is close: link to this video . It's a script written by an RNN acted out as a short sci-fi film, and Thomas Middleditch is in it. Don't expect too much, though. I was reading an article on it and was excited to watch it, but it's too incoherent, in the usual fashion of today's RNNs.
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themadstorkon Hacker News • Mentions

On “An AI wrote all of David Hasselhoff’s lines in a bizarre short film”

Hey, I'm one of the creators of this -- I trained the LSTMs that wrote the computer generated segments in this film. The ballet choreography was generated with a context-free grammar, because I couldn't find enough material to make a ballet choreography LSTM. Here's our film from last year, Sunspring, which was written entirely by an LSTM trained on science fiction screenplays: link to this video It's worth noting that this year I used subtitle files rather than screenplays to train our LSTMs, so we only had dialogue rather than dialogue + action descriptions. The Ars Technica article explains everything.
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eggpyon Hacker News • Mentions

On “The Last Invention of Man”

…ece there, because people are working on these in all sorts of fields all over the world, today. If we can build AIs that create "good" art, is it much of a stretch to teach a super AI what "better" means? By default a super intelligence doesn't have to start out as super intelligence, just have the capability to improve. 0 link 1 link 2 link to this video…
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