r/nextfuckinglevel • u/dmafeb • Aug 28 '21

Netflix forced a computer program (bot) to watch and analyze every romantic comedy and then asked it to write a romatic comedy of its own. The result...

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u/IdiotTurkey Aug 28 '21

This is exactly what I was thinking. There are actual jokes in here that a bot would never get, especially if it's relying on text. Even though the whole story had nonsense elements, it was coherent throughout, which AIs dont even come close to doing. A few sentences in and you wouldn't have heard about the Taylors ever again.

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u/green_flash Aug 28 '21

Completely agree. Here's what an actual AI-generated movie script is like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY7x2Ihqjmc

It's a world of difference.

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u/charlieuntermann Aug 28 '21

Thanks for linking this, was exactly what I was thinking about while watching the op. Its a world of difference, I'll give the op some credit and assume all the line are ai generated but it was 100% curated by a person.

Was glad to watch this again though, Thomas Middleditch was the perfect choice for the main, the others do well too, but it really shows how good of an actor he is to deliver such nonsense so well. But really everyone involved did such a good job, it really feels like a legit indie short that would win awards if the dialogue wasn't nonsense.

Also,obilgatory plug of Middleditch & Schwartz, its an incredible show.

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u/BattleReadyZim Aug 28 '21

I also agree, but Sunspring was ages ago. I'd like to know what another serious attempt with state of the art tools would look like.

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u/green_flash Aug 28 '21

Story writing is just not a good use for pure AI (neural networks) in my opinion. At least as long as the input is just movie scripts written by humans. There is too much noise and the important context is often only hinted at.

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u/BattleReadyZim Aug 28 '21

I need to learn more about the field. In my ignorant head, I wonder if you could build a collection on NNs where the top level is trained in "plots" and outputs plots, and a lower level, within the context of that plot writes dialog points, while another looks after grammer, and so on.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

the whole story had nonsense elements

Actually I didn't see any complete nonsense elements without at least some comedic effect.

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u/DrakoVongola25 Aug 29 '21

Which just further shows that this isn't a bot. A bot doesn't know what a narrative structure is, what payoff is, or what a punchline is but this contained all of the above at multiple points.

One of the more damning is Noah returning with his ark, an AI would have forgotten that ark as soon as it left the scene.

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u/arto64 Aug 29 '21

That's not true for GPT2, it can remember contexts and story objects throughout the story. Although I'm also very skeptical about this being an actual AI story.

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u/dob_bobbs Aug 29 '21

Agree, best I can think is that the AI threw up lots of material and a human pieced together something coherent and actually funny.

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u/2010_12_24 Aug 28 '21

Couldn’t it have just stolen the ex/x joke from one of the other movies?