A.I. can write a script and shoot it

Recently, an artificial intelligence named Benjamin wrote a short science fiction film that looked like this:

The short film was created for the London Science Fiction Film Festival’s 48-Hour Short Film Challenge. Its creators include Oscar Sharp, a filmmaker, and Ross Goodwin, an ARTIFICIAL intelligence researcher at New York University who wrote Benjamin, an artificial intelligence screenwriter.

Benjamin’s neural network is capable of text recognition.

To train it, Goodwin fed the AI dozens of online sci-fi movie scripts from the 1980s and 1990s and had it learn to predict the sentence that followed each word or phrase. It even wrote musical interludes in its own style for scripts after learning 30,000 popular songs.



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The advantage of this AI is that it can extract longer strings to help it predict whole sentences rather than just individual words. It is good at generating complete sentences rather than just simple corpus.

But there are things it doesn’t do, like it hasn’t yet learned to name characters, because names aren’t like other words and are unpredictable. And in Benjamin’s play, it gives some stage scenarios that are almost impossible to achieve. For example, there is a line in the script: “He stands among the stars and sits on the floor.”



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Sharp said people laughed their heads off when they finished reading the script. After actors get a role, they have to work on the script, through their own language expression and body language to present the content of the script.

While Benjamin’s screenwriting is still very rudimentary, Sharp says it helps him see how screenwriters approach science fiction, which will influence his future screenwriting.

Sharp says his next project Is to direct a film called Randle Is Benign. It will tell the story of a scientist who invented the world’s first superintelligent artificial computer.

Working with Benjamin, he said, would be an incredible thing to do in a way that would echo the script.