'Sunspring' is an absurd sci-fi short film written by AI, starring Thomas Middleditch

"We see H pull a book from a shelf, flip through it while speaking, and then put it back. H: In the future with more unemployment, young people are forced to sell blood. That's the first thing I can do." And so begins the script of Sunspring – a romance, mystery, sci-fi film written by an artificial intelligence algorithm that named itself Benjamin. Benjamin is the brainchild of filmmaker Oscar Sharp and technologist Ross Goodwin, who decided to employ a long short-term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural network to compete in the 48-Hour Film Challenge at Sci-Fi London.