{"id":94659,"date":"2016-06-12T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=94659"},"modified":"2016-06-12T08:00:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T06:00:25","slug":"watch-this-epic-science-fiction-short-film-written-by-an-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/94659-watch-this-epic-science-fiction-short-film-written-by-an-ai","title":{"rendered":"Watch this epic science fiction short film written by an AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica is hosting the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/the-multiverse\/2016\/06\/an-ai-wrote-this-movie-and-its-strangely-moving\/\" target=\"_blank\">online debut of Sunspring<\/a><\/strong>, a movie that was written entirely by an artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be specific, it was authored by a recurrent neural network called long short-term memory, or LSTM for short. At least, that&#8217;s what we&#8217;d call it. The AI named itself\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.wtf\/\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin<\/a><\/strong>,&#8221; Ars Technica reported.<\/p>\n<p>An LSTM recurrent neural network is a a type of AI that is often used for text recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Director Oscar Sharp made Sunspring for Sci-Fi London, as an entry to\u00a0the annual film festival&#8217;s 48-hour film challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Contestants are given a set of prompts, mostly props and lines,\u00a0which\u00a0have to appear in a movie they make over two days.<\/p>\n<p>Sharp teamed up with an\u00a0AI researcher at New York University, Ross Goodwin, to use an artificial intelligence to develop the screenplay.<\/p>\n<p>To train the neural network, Goodwin used dozens of\u00a0sci-fi screenplays he found online, which ended up being mostly movies from the 1980s and 90s.<\/p>\n<p>According to the film-makers, the AI was given the following prompts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Sunspring<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dialogue:<\/strong> It may never be forgiven, but that is just too bad.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prop &amp; action:<\/strong> A character pulls a book from a shelf, flips through it and puts its back.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Optional science idea:<\/strong> In a future of mass unemployment, young people are forced to sell blood.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/player.cnevids.com\/embedjs\/5511d70861646d2d07060000\/video\/57587c44ba4aa1013c00000c.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 10px 0; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on artificial intelligence<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/93693-why-we-should-scrap-dumb-passwords-in-favour-of-smarter-security.html\"><strong>Why we should scrap \u2018dumb passwords\u2019 in favour of smarter security<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/93741-how-we-should-plan-for-ethical-robots.html\"><strong>How we should plan for ethical robots<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/91879-how-an-a-i-turned-r300-into-r164000-in-20-minutes.html\"><strong>How an A.I. turned R300 into R164,000 in 20 minutes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/92267-how-to-design-trustworthy-robots-that-wont-deceive-us.html\"><strong>How to design trustworthy robots that won\u2019t deceive us<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunspring is based on a screenplay written by an artificial intelligence which called himself Benjamin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":94665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10902,19335,19329,19331,19333],"class_list":["post-94659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-ars-technica","tag-benjamin","tag-oscar-sharp","tag-ross-goodwin","tag-sci-fi-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94683,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94659\/revisions\/94683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}