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fork(2) [soylentnews.org] writes:

      From Ars Technica [arstechnica.com] (video clip may or may not be available there, 'nother 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 [benjamin.wtf].

      NYU AI researcher, Ross Goodwin, posted this cool description/musing [medium.com] (includes video clips and the lyrics to a song that was also generated by an LSTM he trained).

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