When director Oscar Sharp entered Sci-Fi-London's 48 Hours Film Challenge in 2016, he had to write, shoot, and edit a movie in two days. To up his creative game, Sharp enlisted technologist Ross Goodwin to build what might be the first script-writing artificial intelligence. This recurrent neural network, which eventually named itself Benjamin, spat out the four-page screenplay that became the seven-minute Sunspring. Then things got weird.
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