So, what happens when you create artificial intelligence that can write a science fiction screenplay? Short film writer-director Oscar Sharp and producers Andrew Kortschak, Andrew Swett, and Allison Friedman, along with actor Thomas Middledtich (Silicon Valley), have crafted a bizarre, illogical, yet strangely fascinating experimental short. Sharp and his "technologist collaborator" Ross Goodwin built "Jetson," a little machine that can craft screenplays. Using text prediction software used on smartphones as a basis, hundreds of sci-fi TV and film screenplays, as well as some basic seeds from a sci-fi filmmaking competition, were fed into Jetson and the machine was given the green light. What materialised is Sunspring, a nonsensical short, but one that is nevertheless compelling, driving the mind to come up with possible meanings and conclusions.

Starring Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch and directed by Oscar Sharp, the short features a special script compiled by the neural network that even wrote a song unique to the film. After being fed scripts like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Watchmen and Aliens (as well as tons of others) it produced a nonsensical mess that actually works quite well in practice. The film was shot and edited in 48 hours, which is a feat considering how polished it looks in practice. As one character says "Well, I don't know anything about any of this, so..." You might get that feeling after viewing the film, but it's just like watching the insane ramblings of porn stars in Vernon Chatman's Final Flesh.

In the film, Goertzel emerges as part visionary, part mountebank. He can always attract partners and excite investors but he struggles to hit deadlines. A company he set up in New York "pissed away" 20 million (as his former business partner puts it.) There is an excruciating scene in the documentary in which he and his colleagues demonstrate their A.I. "child" robots to their Chinese investors in Hong Kong. The robots let them down.

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Knowing that an AI wrote Sunspring makes the movie more fun to watch, especially once you know how the cast and crew put it together. Director Oscar Sharp made the movie for Sci-Fi London, an annual film festival that includes the 48-Hour Film Challenge, where contestants are given a set of prompts (mostly props and lines) that have to appear in a movie they make over the next two days. Sharp's longtime collaborator, Ross Goodwin, is an AI researcher at New York University, and he supplied the movie's AI writer, initially called Jetson. As the cast gathered around a tiny printer, Benjamin spat out the screenplay, complete with almost impossible stage directions like "He is standing in the stars and sitting on the floor." Then Sharp randomly assigned roles to the actors in the room.

'He is standing in the stars and sitting on the floor' – it's one of many bizarre lines from a new science fiction screenplay called Sunspring, written entirely by an AI. The short film is barely nine minutes long and is strangely captivating as it gravitates between dark and cryptic to outright hilarious, with blocks of nonsensical dialogue. Sunspring was created for the annual film festival Sci-Fi London, and debuted today on Ars Technica. 'He is standing in the stars and sitting on the floor' – it's one of many bizarre lines from a new science fiction screenplay called Sunspring, written entirely by an AI. To produce the film, director Oscar Sharp and collaborator Ross Goodwin, an NYU AI researcher, fed dozens of scripts to a long short-term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural network that has named itself Benjamin.

In today's edition of men having outbursts on the internet, self-proclaimed feminist online dating app Bumble has issued an open letter to a user named Connor, who threw a veritable temper tantrum when a woman boldly asked him what he does for a living. The Bumble messages, featured below, originally appeared on the blog of "The Millionaire Matchmaker" cast member David Cruz. The aptly named post, "How to FIGHT BACK to Digital Dicks!" shows how quickly a conversation shared by Cruz's friend Ashley between her and her Bumble match, Connor, went south. As Cruz writes, Connor "went from Prince Charming to Digital Dick in zero seconds." In the string of messages, Connor accused Ashley of being an "entitled gold-digging whore," because she made the grave mistake of asking Connor what he does for a living.

If you're a child of the '80s like me, you might recognize this famous line from the movie WarGames. This innocent-sounding question comes not from one of the movie's human stars, but from a military super-computer named Joshua, after a bored high school student, played by Matthew Broderick, accesses the computer's hard drive. Thinking he's hacked into a video game company, Broderick's character accepts Joshua's challenge and chooses the most intriguing game he can find: global thermonuclear war. Joshua is an intelligent computer programmed to learn through simulations like the one Broderick's character initiates. And because the computer actually does control the arsenal of U.S. nuclear weapons, it's a "game" that puts the planet on the brink of World War III.

The zany AI angle, pushed heavily by Tronc's new billionaire biotech benefactor Patrick Soon-Shiong, is just one recent twist in the saga at the once-storied newspaper chain. Since USA Today owner and rival Gannett made a hostile bid for Tribune/Tronc last month, Chairman Michael Ferro has done everything to keep the company from changing hands. On CNBC today, Ferro outlined some of his plans to revitalize the company, whose share price has dropped by nearly half over the last couple years. It involves using vaguely described machine learning technology to produce lots of video. "There's all these really new, fun features we're going to be able to do with artificial intelligence and content to make videos faster," Ferro told interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin.