Science Fiction film written by an AI

[rolycat]

Ars Technica are hosting Sunspring, a short science fiction film which was a top-ten finalist at Sci-Fi London.

It was entirely written by an AI which calls itself Benjamin. Benjamin also wrote the song which features in the film.

As is traditional, it has a (North) American protagonist and a British villain.

It's gripping stuff.

[tszaboo]

Stop calling it an AI, it doesn't pass the Turing test.
That being said, it is almost better than some screenplay by Steven Moffat.

[wraper]

Stop calling it an AI, it doesn't pass the Turing test.
That being said, it is almost better than some screenplay by Steven Moffat.

Why should it? Why do you think AI need to behave like human to be an AI. AI can do very different tasks completely impossible to human either.

The Turing test is a test, developed by Alan Turing in 1950, of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

[T3sl4co1l]

http://imgur.com/gallery/pQ7s8

[HackedFridgeMagnet]

It seems like some jobs are safe from AI for a while at least.

[J.Xerneas]

http://imgur.com/gallery/pQ7s8

Perfect response. Bravo

[sakhmatd]

I like how "I don't know what you're talking about" seems to be the most commonly uttered phrase in the whole movie. It's like it's self aware or something.

[TerraHertz]

Ars Technica are hosting Sunspring, a short science fiction film which was a top-ten finalist at Sci-Fi London.

Bah humbug. It's just doing Markov Chain text generation from a tree structure built from the listed set of literature. No 'AI' comprehension at all. And so the script is meaningless rubbish. It's only the presentation by human actors with all their social cues - facial expression, tonal, pacing, body language (and sets) that suggest to the viewer there's anything of meaning there.

Not much comprehension among the voters/judges at Sci-Fi London either. Though, high marks to the actors for a good effort stood on a garbage script.

[Len]

Bah humbug. It's just doing Markov Chain text generation from a tree structure built from the listed set of literature. No 'AI' comprehension at all. And so the script is meaningless rubbish.

Someone did pretty much the same thing on Usenet about 30 years ago as a joke. The results were just about as comprehensible as this.

[rolycat]

Ars Technica are hosting Sunspring, a short science fiction film which was a top-ten finalist at Sci-Fi London.

Bah humbug. It's just doing Markov Chain text generation from a tree structure built from the listed set of literature.

No, it isn't. It's a similar technique, sure, but the article specifically mentions that it does not use a Markov chain and discusses the advantages of the LSTM recurrent neural network used for the project.

No 'AI' comprehension at all.

Comprehension is not a required characteristic of applied AI software.

And so the script is meaningless rubbish. It's only the presentation by human actors with all their social cues - facial expression, tonal, pacing, body language (and sets) that suggest to the viewer there's anything of meaning there.

It is not meaningless rubbish. It is a distorted reflection of the creative talents of the many human beings who wrote the corpus. Obviously it has no dramatic power without further human interpretation; that's a large part of its interest.

Not much comprehension among the voters/judges at Sci-Fi London either.

Apparently unlike you, I'm fairly sure that the judges were in on the joke. Quoting from the article:

Award-winning sci-fi author Pat Cadigan, said, "I'll give them top marks if they promise never to do this again."

[tszaboo]

It is not meaningless rubbish. It is a distorted reflection of the creative talents of the many human beings who wrote the corpus. Obviously it has no dramatic power without further human interpretation; that's a large part of its interest.

"I have no idea what you are talking about."
"I have no idea what you are talking about."
"I have no idea what you are talking about."
This message was written by an AI.

[rolycat]

It is not meaningless rubbish. It is a distorted reflection of the creative talents of the many human beings who wrote the corpus. Obviously it has no dramatic power without further human interpretation; that's a large part of its interest.

"I have no idea what you are talking about."
"I have no idea what you are talking about."
"I have no idea what you are talking about."
This message was written by an AI.