"Slaughterbots" directed by Stewart Sugg In a dystopian world a new form of A.I. weaponry has been created. All these drone bots need is a profile: age, sex, fitness, uniform, and ethnicity. Take out your entire enemy virtually risk free. Just characterize him, release the swarm, and rest easy. The 7 minute film opens with a Silicon Valley CEO-type delivering a product presentation to a live audience a la Steve Jobs.

Rise, a sci-fi short film directed by David Karlak, will be adapted into a feature produced by Filmula's Johnny Lin and Cross Creek's Brian Oliver. The producers picked up the feature film rights from Warner Bros. Karlak's short is about a dystopian future where man's attempt to create artificial intelligence has spun wildly out of control, leading to a war between man and machine. Anton Yelchin starred in the short, which was based on a screenplay Karlak penned with writers Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton (the Saw series). Karlak will direct the feature adaptation as well. Lin, who is an executive producer on the upcoming Tom Cruise-starrer American Made, and Oliver, who produced Hacksaw Ridge and Black Swan, among others, will fully finance and produce the film, and are planning Rise as a driver for a film franchise.

Subscribe and watch more sci-fi shorts on DUST: http://bit.ly/2aqc5vh This is the dark conclusion that humans have reached in David Karlak's short film "Rise." In the near future, robots have developed advanced emotional sophistication and their human creators don't like it. What should have been a simple and violent extermination of artificial life proves harder when a captured robot demonstrates that the human aggressors are biting off more than they can chew. Our team loves the short for its impressive visual effects and character driven story.

We've previously reported how AI is developing rapidly and gaining the ability to do things like defeat human champions at the game of Go, describe photos in words for vision-impaired users, detect cyber attacks and even write novels and financial reports. That's old hat – there's now an AI that can write screenplays. It's named itself Benjamin and its first film, a sci-fi short, has just been released on YouTube for the world to enjoy. Our new event for New York is focused on quality, not quantity. 'Sunspring' was directed by Oscar Sharp and stars Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch.

Filmmaker Oscar Sharp and technologist Ross Goodwin fed a machine learning algorithm with a bunch of Sci-Fi movie scripts to see what new script it would spit out. A script for Sunspring is the result, and this is the film, starring Thomas Middleditch. The thought of a machine tapping into emotion and creativity likely brings some sneers, but Goodwin argues that it's about assistance and augmentation rather than a replacement for the humans. The machine dictated that Middleditch's character should pull the camera. However, the reveal that he's holding nothing was a brilliant human interpretation, informed by the production team's many years of combined experience and education in the art of filmmaking.

We've previously reported how AI is developing rapidly and gaining the ability to do things like defeat human champions at the game of Go, describe photos in words for vision-impaired users, detect cyber attacks and even write novels and financial reports. That's old hat – there's now an AI that can write screenplays. It's named itself Benjamin and its first film, a sci-fi short, has just been released on YouTube for the world to enjoy. 'Sunspring' was directed by Oscar Sharp and stars Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch. It was made for the 48-Hour Film Challenge at the Sci-Fi London festival.

We've previously reported how AI is developing rapidly and gaining the ability to do things like defeat human champions at the game of Go, describe photos in words for vision-impaired users, detect cyber attacks and even write novels and financial reports. That's old hat – there's now an AI that can write screenplays. It's named itself Benjamin and its first film, a sci-fi short, has just been released on YouTube for the world to enjoy. 'Sunspring' was directed by Oscar Sharp and stars Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch. It was made for the 48-Hour Film Challenge at the Sci-Fi London festival.

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.