So, what is it we are selling? Is it the final screenplay? Or the process that ‘these inputs were hand-chosen by these filmmakers’? The screenplays and music chosen by the director and researcher of the project to be fed into this algorithm represent their own biases and therefore so does the output. The ‘art’ of AI writing is based on the chosen inputs. Pathways to a Just Digital Future Watch this tech inequality series featuring scholars, practitioners, & activists First, is a story (or a painting for that matter), objectively beautiful regardless of the source it is generated by, or is the source that originates the piece of art as important to our understanding of the art as the final medium itself? Would Van Gogh be as popular if we didn’t know about his life of turmoil, including chopping off his ear? Or do we just love pretty pictures? What happens if we do not know and find out later? I believe our feelings towards the medium will change. I believe this raises some very interesting concepts. The outcome is a bizarre existential storyline that alludes to a love affair, a dystopian future, and is hilarious when you consider a machine wrote it. It began to formulate original sentences, learning screenplay format and character dialogue to ultimately form its own script complete with odd stage directions (‘He is standing in the stars and sitting on the floor’) and a musical interlude. In line with deep learning methods, ‘Jetson’, which eerily renamed itself ‘Benjamin’, through many iterations first determined which letters are more likely to appear in which order, then which words. Together, they developed ‘Jetson’, a recurring neural network that ingested dozens of sci-fi screenplays and teleplays, as well as 30,000 pop songs, to produce the script and music that became his short film, Sunspring ( ). write the screenplay for his upcoming sci-fi short film. researcher, natural language processing expert, and fellow NYU grad Ross Goodwin, about having an A.I. In 2016, film director Oscar Sharp approached A.I.
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