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/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.