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Sunspring (2016)
Director: Oscar Sharp
Cast: Thomas Middleditch, Humphrey Ker, Elisabeth Gray
Runtime9 min
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Sunspring is a short film about three people living in a weird future, possibly on a space station, probably in a love triangle. You know it's the future because H (played with neurotic gravity by Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch) is wearing a shiny gold jacket, H2 (Elisabeth Gray) is playing with computers, and C (Humphrey Ker) announces that he has to "go to the skull" before sticking his face into a bunch of green lights. It sounds like your typical sci-fi B-movie, complete with an incoherent plot. Except Sunspring isn't the product of Hollywood hacks—it was written entirely by an AI. To be specific, it was authored by a recurrent neural network called long short-term memory, or LSTM for short. At least, that's what we'd call it. The AI named itself Benjamin.
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Sunspring, a 2016 sci-fi short film directed by Oscar Sharp, was entirely written by an AI named Benjamin. The film has been viewed as an intriguing and unique experiment in AI-generated storytelling, though critical reception has been mixed, with some finding the incoherent plot and B-movie aesthetics a limitation, while others see it as a fascinating glimpse into the creative potential of artificial intelligence.
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Fans of avant-garde sci-fi and experimental storytelling will find Sunspring, directed by Oscar Sharp in 2016, to be a uniquely compelling and ambitious film. The fact that this surreal sci-fi drama was entirely written by an AI imbues the film with a distinctive, unsettling tone and unpredictable narrative that challenges conventional filmmaking.
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Sunspring is a 2016 experimental science fiction short film entirely written by an artificial intelligence bot using neural networks. It was conceived by BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Oscar Sharp and NYU AI researcher Ross Goodwin and produced by film production company, End Cue along with Allison Friedman and Andrew Swett. It stars Thomas Middleditch, Elisabeth Grey, and Humphrey Ker as three people, namely H, H2, and C, living in a future world and eventually connecting with each other through a love triangle. The script of the film was authored by a recurrent neural network called long short-term memory (LSTM) by an AI bot named Benjamin.
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