An AI Wrote This Short Film--and It's Surprisingly Entertaining

"In a future with mass unemployment, young people are forced to sell blood." This is the opening line of a short film entered in this year's Sci-Fi London Film Challenge. It's dark, enigmatic, contemporary…and written by a computer. In fact, the film's entire screenplay is the work of a neural net trained on nothing but sci-fi scripts. Once the software completed the screenplay, it was up to the film's director and actors to make it into something someone might actually watch. And they did an admirable job.