2. Music Composition

The idea of creating an algorithm able to read scripts and write its own, originated with director Oscar Sharp after he read a huge number of scripts for science fiction films. Sharpe turned for help to his long-time buddy, Ross Goodwin, an artificial intelligence researcher at New York University. For this task, Goodwin set up a neural network called “Benjamin,” which was used for text recognition. A number of scripts for science fiction from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s were downloaded to the neural network. Benjamin analyzed these scenarios and made the film, a process taking only nine minutes. The picture is about the world of the future, a place of mass unemployment, in which young people are forced to sell their blood. In addition to the dialogue in the film, there is a song with the text generated by artificial intelligence from 30,000 downloaded popular songs. The film was both futuristic and Shakespearean in spirit. This is a surprising example of how a film can be built entirely on the playing of actors and the work of a sound engineer.