Artificial intelligence software Benjamin writes a short film

'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.