Watch 'Sunspring,' a Sci-Fi Short Film Written by A.I. - TheReelWord.net

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.