from the next-time,-try-the-"short long-term memory" dept.
From Ars Technica (video clip may or may not be available there, see another link below):
Ars is excited to be hosting this online debut of Sunspring, a short science fiction film that's not entirely what it seems. It's 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.
NYU AI researcher, Ross Goodwin, posted this cool description/musing (includes video clips and the lyrics to a song that was also generated by an LSTM he trained).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2016, @06:15AM
Video is the trendy thing so of course the output of a silly mad libs algorithm has to be made into a short film for no reason.
When I was in high school I designed a mad libs algorithm too. It wrote grammatically correct gibberish but there was one gem of a sentence that was memorable:
Something gets a house in breakfast.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2016, @06:29AM
I'd rather read Zippy the Pinhead.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Subsentient on Sunday June 26 2016, @06:55AM
It's garbage. Not even slightly entertaining. Looks like we have a ways to go.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2016, @07:05AM
Words without thought, as the Bard wrote.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2016, @07:34AM
I was slightly amused by the gun taped onto a bare wall.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2016, @07:37AM
.........you rich folk what with your gun holsters and weapons lockers and all.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday June 26 2016, @02:09PM
Was it Chekov's?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by tibman on Sunday June 26 2016, @05:53PM
I don't know man, i was pretty entertained. It's not something i could watch for more than 10 minutes though. It was interesting to see people try to find meaning in a rather meaningless ai generated script. I could see them going "wtf does it mean to go to the skull?" and then creating that skull interface.
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2016, @09:40AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY7x2Ihqjmc [youtube.com]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2016, @10:14AM
I mean animals don't apparently get any copyrights, do AIs?
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Sunday June 26 2016, @04:22PM
This reminds me of a shareware program I used to use in the DOS days, that would take several text files as input and create an endless stream of semi-coherent sounding babble based on that. It is still kind of fun to feed it content from modern forums/social networks and note that the output is just as intelligent as the input (that is, not at all).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2016, @02:34PM
> He looked at me, then threw me out of his eyes.
It's poetic, but only by chance.