SUNSPRING Is a Hilariously Confusing Sci-Fi Short Written by an A.I. Neural Network

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I've got a strange, charming, and completely incoherent sci-fi short film for you to check out today called "Sunspring." The film was written by an artificial intelligent neural network that was fed hundreds of scripts for sci-fi films and TV shows. The A.I. spit out this script for "Sunspring" which is a jumbled mess of absurdity, but that doesn't mean it's not enjoyable, because it is. It doesn't hurt that it stars Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch. In a weird way he actually makes it all work. Here's some information regarding the short:

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.

I can't even begin to tell you what the movie is about because there's no plot! It's just weird characters, in a strange setting, saying crazy things. One thing is for sure... it made me laugh.

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.

Via: Gizmodo