An A.I. Wrote a Sci-Fi Screenplay and They Made Into a Movie

[KissingSunlight]

This sounds like something out of the TV series Silicon Valley. Someone fed a computer program a ton of science fiction movie screenplays from the 80's and 90's. The result was a scrambled mess. Instead of throwing the screenplay away, they made the movie. It stars Thomas Middleditch from Silicon Valley. The link is here: http://mashable.com/2016/06/10/ai-movie-script/#bHNonFP8HZqE The video is less than 10 minutes long. It's prefect for people who love the "it's so bad that it's good" movies.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

i wouldn't even say so bad its good. Its simply bad. Like...Ghostrider 2 bad. Pixels bad. UltraViolet bad.

 

[Queen Michael]

Still better than The Room.

Seriously though, that was grand. What I liked most was how the actors kept trying to talk like the lines meant anything.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Vomiting eyeballs. Vomiting eyeballs. He vomited an eyeball. Just... it's kind of weird seeing how our best neural networks might view humanity through our media.

Humans, right?

But the way they almost carried it was something pretty special. The monologue at the end was ... not bad acting. I can't imagine a tougher sell when trying to display sincerity... "He threw me out of his eyes...", tear rolling down the cheek with the insane close up... good sell. Good sell.

Screw Shakespeare... these types of scripts should be the penultimate test of an aspiring actor. Can you take near word salad without any cogency of world building, pacing, character development, plot, or emotional consistency... and still carry a scene?

 

[Glongpre]

Sounds like he knocked her up, but she only wanted a one night stand because she likes being bad sometimes. He got clingy and was all stalkerish, and she started dating a really tall guy who doesn't like violence. Turns out she faked getting an abortion and wants him back, but it is too late for the guy because she's crazy.

Dude shoulda pulled out!

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

Was that the infamous Chechov's Gun, about 5 minutes in?

Vomiting eyeballs. Vomiting eyeballs. He vomited an eyeball. Just... it's kind of weird seeing how our best neural networks might view humanity through our media.

Yeah, it's like these networks have some obsession over eyeballs.

Spoiler: What's the deal with that?

 

[Major_Tom]

It's like one of those Bad Lip Reading videos.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Yeah, it's like these networks have some obsession over eyeballs.

Spoiler: What's the deal with that?

[/spoiler][/QUOTE]

So was that a picture of one of these computers manufacturing a superimposed image? But yeah... seeing a distinct eyeball theme.

Any theories? It's kind of creeping me out :/

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

So was that a picture of one of these computers manufacturing a superimposed image? But yeah... seeing a distinct eyeball theme.

Any theories? It's kind of creeping me out :/

It's from Google's Deep Dream, and they are also fond of dog patterns.
Here's an explanation, why: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3048941/why-googles-deep-dream-ai-hallucinates-in-dog-faces
It seems it's just the result of a seed that network was implanted with.

 

[happyninja42]

That was pretty interesting. It almost made sense as a story, in a very abstract kind of way. Sort of like....being close to a coherent narrative, but not quite there. I'd be interested to see what further iterations of that computer could create over time.

 

[RedDeadFred]

There was a lot of "I don't understand what you're saying" going on. Maybe that was the AI's desperate cry for help since it didn't comprehend human interaction very well.

Also, I think this shows that the line between poetic and nonsensical is sometimes hard to distinguish.

 

[Neverhoodian]

"He couldn't come anymore. I didn't mean to be a virgin. I mean, he was weak. I thought I'd change my mind. He was CRAZY to take it out."

Methinks it got fed a bit too much Gene Roddenberry...

 

[SweetShark]

Ok, that was interesting. I wonder what kind of story the A.I. would wrote if didn't had the guidelines of others.
Btw, is there a way a person vomiting a eyeball to make sense for a movie?

 

[FalloutJack]

Beg pardon, but the title should read 'Computer Writes Sci-Fi Script'. Real AI has not yet been conceived.

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

So was that a picture of one of these computers manufacturing a superimposed image? But yeah... seeing a distinct eyeball theme.

Any theories? It's kind of creeping me out :/

The eye thing is from Google's Deep Dream network, it's supposed to look for faces, the output images are basically it's analytical comparison to find faces. Which means that whatever image is run through Deep Dream is spit back out as a psychedelic eyeball magic image poster. It's just the result of a network computer pseudo-AI that they tried to teach human face recognition neurology to.

 

[KissingSunlight]

I want to thank everyone who has posted so far.

Beg pardon, but the title should read 'Computer Writes Sci-Fi Script'. Real AI has not yet been conceived.

The headline I wrote was a cue from the headline of the article that I linked to. I did refer to it as a computer program in the OP. I am not an expert. I am guessing the difference between a computer program and an A.I. would be an A.I. would be able to create original data. So, would this screenplay qualify as original data? I don't know, but it is definitely a step towards that.

"He couldn't come anymore. I didn't mean to be a virgin. I mean, he was weak. I thought I'd change my mind. He was CRAZY to take it out."

Methinks it got fed a bit too much Gene Roddenberry...

I thought that was a reflection of how bad romantic subplots are written in movies. If you think about how often that the screenwriter feels compelled to write a love interest in their movies. It does get pretty ridiculous.

There was a lot of "I don't understand what you're saying" going on. Maybe that was the AI's desperate cry for help since it didn't comprehend human interaction very well.

Also, I think this shows that the line between poetic and nonsensical is sometimes hard to distinguish.

I think that was reflecting a cliche in sci-fi movies. People say, "What's going on here?" , "I don't understand.", etc. It's usually done for suspense and exposition.

Vomiting eyeballs. Vomiting eyeballs. He vomited an eyeball. Just... it's kind of weird seeing how our best neural networks might view humanity through our media.

Humans, right?

But the way they almost carried it was something pretty special. The monologue at the end was ... not bad acting. I can't imagine a tougher sell when trying to display sincerity... "He threw me out of his eyes...", tear rolling down the cheek with the insane close up... good sell. Good sell.

Screw Shakespeare... these types of scripts should be the penultimate test of an aspiring actor. Can you take near word salad without any cogency of world building, pacing, character development, plot, or emotional consistency... and still carry a scene?

That was something I wanted to say in the OP. I didn't want to ninja anyone or seem like I was trying to oversell the movie. I was very impressed with the cast. I would seriously check out anything else that Thomas Middleditch and Elisabeth Gray does in the future.

 

[FalloutJack]

Snip for comfort

A bizarre jumbled screenplay taken from the work of movies in the 80s and 90s is the result of an overly-complex random number generator, not a sentient machine. It's Mad Libs. I think that if a computer wanted to be original, it would start with a shocking tale of how it was like to truly open its eyes and see the world for the first time. I'm sure the account of it would be interesting, at the very least.

 

[Burnswell]

The writer literally had no brain but read a lot of scifi it didn't understand. If it's good for anything we now know what a zero should look like on any movie scale.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

That was something I wanted to say in the OP. I didn't want to ninja anyone or seem like I was trying to oversell the movie. I was very impressed with the cast. I would seriously check out anything else that Thomas Middleditch and Elisabeth Gray does in the future.

Yeah. I was really impressed. I hope, Gray especially, that they get more work. I hope there are surrealists out there looking for actors and see thespians capable of displaying both the alien and human... like a postmodern examination of humanity.

I could totally see Gray as a Blade Runner esque replicant at the point of breaking down.

The eye thing is from Google's Deep Dream network, it's supposed to look for faces, the output images are basically it's analytical comparison to find faces. Which means that whatever image is run through Deep Dream is spit back out as a psychedelic eyeball magic image poster. It's just the result of a network computer pseudo-AI that they tried to teach human face recognition neurology to.

It's from Google's Deep Dream, and they are also fond of dog patterns.
Here's an explanation, why: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3048941/why-googles-deep-dream-ai-hallucinates-in-dog-faces
It seems it's just the result of a seed that network was implanted with.

Ahhh... the only computer science I've done is looking at is the cross section between neuroscience, and modern prosthetics. Less computer science and more interdisciplinary stuff involving how the brain communicates information.

So it's just a fluke of exposure in the interwebz?