New algorithm can create movies from just a few snippets of text

Artificial intelligence is moving into movie production. Screenwriters denied the big budgets and formidable resources of the major film studios may soon have another option, thanks to a new algorithm that can generate a video simply by consuming a (very short) script. The new movies are far from Oscar-worthy, but a similar technique could one day find uses outside entertainment, by, say, helping a witness reconstruct a car crash or a crime. Artificial intelligence (AI) is getting much better at identifying the content of images and providing labels. So-called "generative" algorithms go the other way, producing images from labels (or brain scans). A few can even take a single movie frame and predict the next series of frames.