Machines Making Movies | Ross Goodwin & Oscar Sharp | TEDxBoston

In 2016, Benjamin wrote a script called Sunspring (), which we made into a short film featuring Thomas Middleditch (star of HBO’s Silicon Valley). It caused quite a stir. Not so much because of the mysterious storyline or the garish gold costumes. But because Benjamin is a machine. Specifically, a long short-term memory recurrent neural network Artificial Intelligence. We’ll explore what it took to build Benjamin, and teach her to be a screenwriter. And we’ll invi