Sunspring, a short film scripted by a neural network, goes online

Oscar Sharp and Ross Goodwin released Sunspring, a science-fiction short whose entire screenplay, dialogue and stage directions alike, was written by an LSTM network they named Benjamin. It starred Thomas Middleditch and was made for a 48-hour film contest.

Why it mattered An early public demonstration of a generative language model writing dialogue, years before machine-written text became ordinary.