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Art & experimental Human-directed

Sunspring

A nine-minute film whose screenplay was written entirely by a recurrent neural network and performed straight by human actors.

By
Oscar Sharp & Ross Goodwin
Year
2016
Country
United States
Category
Art & experimental
Also
Video & animation
Purpose
Entertainment
Degree of AI
Human-directed
Tools
LSTM (Benjamin)

Where the human came in

Goodwin trained the model on sci-fi scripts; Sharp directed; Thomas Middleditch and the cast gave the nonsense emotional sense.

Why it is not slop

A deliberate experiment with the machine's incoherence, made before the hype, and still funnier than most AI films since.

Seed entry: written from public sources and awaiting editorial review.

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