This Surreal Science Fiction Short Film Was Written Entirely by Artificial Intelligence

Sunspring is a short film starring Thomas Middleditch, directed by filmmmaker Oscar Sharp and written by an artificial intelligence algorithm called Jetson, although the program promptly renamed itself Benjamin. The program was fed a cache of science-fiction flicks, as well as a set of prompts and over 30,000 pop songs. Benjamin then churned out a script, randomly assigned roles to actors, and even wrote a musical interlude for the piece. The film tells a rather incoherent story about three peop...