Sunspring, a short science fiction film written by algorithm
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Sunspring, a short science fiction film written by algorithm
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Re: Sunspring, a short science fiction film written by algorithm
#2Interesting that the AI is able to produce a meaningful storyline without fully understanding characters; makes me wonder how it would do at producing stories without any characters; such stories exist, bit SciFi feeling too.
Re: Sunspring, a short science fiction film written by algorithm
#3Interesting that the AI is able to produce a meaningful storyline without fully understanding characters; makes me wonder how it would do at producing stories without any characters; such stories exist, bit SciFi feeling too.
Meaningful? It sounded like some one tried to physically act out a clever bot self-conversation. ( http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vphmJEpLXU0 )
This is a great example of how far we are from artificial intelligence. The actors/directors/etc did a great job of trying to make it work.
I like what they tried to do to make it coherent, but it just goes to show that there is no way to save truly bad incoherent writing.
Re: Sunspring, a short science fiction film written by algorithm
#4Interesting that the AI is able to produce a meaningful storyline without fully understanding characters; makes me wonder how it would do at producing stories without any characters; such stories exist, bit SciFi feeling too.
> Interesting that the AI is able to produce a meaningful storyline without fully understanding characters
Does it? I think the actors and film makers did a pretty good job of creating a film with meaning and characters, despite not having much to work with. In fact a lot of the fun of this is watching the actors try to make something out of the word salad they've been given.
Edit: If you want to see the script unembellished by the cast and crew it's here https://www.docdroid.net/lCZ2fPA/sunspring-final.pdf.html
It's a damn thing scared to say. Nothing is going to be a thing.
Re: Sunspring, a short science fiction film written by algorithm
#5Apparently the "essence of sci-fi" is people saying "I don't know what you're talking about" to each other.
Re: Sunspring, a short science fiction film written by algorithm
#6Interesting that the AI is able to produce a meaningful storyline without fully understanding characters; makes me wonder how it would do at producing stories without any characters; such stories exist, bit SciFi feeling too.
A whole line of narrative theory would say that the sequential action matters more than any character development. That goes against a lot creative writing class assumptions, but those classes might be wrong.
Re: Sunspring, a short science fiction film written by algorithm
#7Interesting that the AI is able to produce a meaningful storyline without fully understanding characters; makes me wonder how it would do at producing stories without any characters; such stories exist, bit SciFi feeling too.
A whole line of narrative theory would say that the sequential action matters more than any character development. That goes against a lot creative writing class assumptions, but those classes might be wrong.
Where can I read more about this line of narrative theory?
Edit: nm, googling.
Re: Sunspring, a short science fiction film written by algorithm
#8Apparently the "essence of sci-fi" is people saying "I don't know what you're talking about" to each other.
Also, maybe one could get a square at some point.
Re: Sunspring, a short science fiction film written by algorithm
#9Interesting that the AI is able to produce a meaningful storyline without fully understanding characters; makes me wonder how it would do at producing stories without any characters; such stories exist, bit SciFi feeling too.
> Interesting that the AI is able to produce a meaningful storyline without fully understanding characters Does it? I think the actors and film makers did a pretty good job of creating a film with meaning and characters, despite not having much to work with. In fact a lot of the fun of this is watching the actors try to make something out of the word salad they've been given. Edit: If you want to see the script unemb…
Also we fill in tons of subtext I'm quite sure the AI has no idea about.
Re: Sunspring, a short science fiction film written by algorithm
#10Can anyone explain the appeal of getting an AI to generate a movie or (chat with you)? I find that experience "plastic", not exactly the right word but I hope it conveys the feeling I get when something programmed pretends to be intelligent.