Sunspring | A Sci-Fi Short Film Starring Thomas Middleditch

[@arstechnica]

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[@joshuaadamstithakayoutubel2490]

Ars Technica Why is your KZbin Channel named "Ars Technica" ? Is "Ars" an acronym?

[@walterpirone4830]

@@joshuaadamstithakayoutubel2490 i think it 'mean art, from latin ars-artis

[@Glasher1]

I believe the network was fed too large a variety of stories. It would be like melting a large box of crayons together looking for a new color. I would think if a more focused type of Sci-Fi titles, shorts as well as feature length (there's certainly ample to choose even from your list), a more coherent script may have been had.

[@JohnSmith-lf5xm]

This is a sacrilege to the Sci-fi movies. Sci-fi is interesting because they use projections of future technologies to examine the deep philosophical meanings. Expecting that an AI will capture that is extremely naive. I will rather propose you to change the load movies to scripts of "Friends" or "Sienfiled" or those silly none sense plays and when acting just make sure to add laughs and you will have much more success on the implementation.

[@HERKELMERKEL]

THIS STORY IS NONESENSE..BUT ACTUALLY AN AI CAN WRITE A MILLION SCRIPTS IN A DAY WITH A SUPER COMPUTER.. IF YOU CAN FIND SOME PEOPLE THAT CAN READ THOSE.. YOU CAN FIND SOME DECENT NICE SCRIPTS AMONG THEM.

[@Outcrow]

"I don't know what you're talking about." Sums up the whole movie.

[@ImehSmith]

😂😂😂

[@julka1274]

Yup!

[@ericpa06]

"I don't wanna be honest with you", damn, that's a hell of a great thing to say.

[@DomikDomik]

I had the same impression about it.

[@Joshchamp67]

yeah it's pretty honest too, ironically.

[@garychap8384]

It's a reluctantly honest line about ones reluctance to be honest. If someone said that to me I'd look at them, and then throw them out of my eyes.

[@ThreadBomb]

This movie does have some great lines. "Nothing is going to be a thing."

[@badrequest5596]

Ironically that has to be the most honest thing i've heard

[@maxthue]

"He looks at me... and he throws me out of his eyes." I have no idea why, but that line is incredible!

[@johnprofit7434]

yess

[@Ghostatmidnight]

It's poetic. That's why.

[@pittor052]

Translated in Bulgarian it makes sense! It is the same as an expression we say for when a person loses his trust in you.

[@pittor052]

I guess a big chunk of the dialogue translated to bulgarian makes a lot of sense. There are still phrases like "I was the one that got on this rock with a child and then I left the other two" that makes no meaning to me.

[@ReziahT]

+pittor052 You can make it make sense. He says "then left the other two" and suddenly the other two are gone, and there's a boy on the floor.

[@jurekszczurek2896]

I am watching a play written by an AI and reading the subtitles generated by yet another one. The future is amazing.

[@alexandershaw9913]

"P.S. I am an AI too"

[@User-xw5mk]

And your comment is also liked by AIs.

[@shreedhar6412]

God bless RNN's...

[@djfabito8]

yes, it was mindfucking

[@rayjrlwilliamstwa7851]

Dude that's intelligent for you to notice something like that, is pretty good. my opinion in another way. it is transferring in a different language if another AI or AI That's watching or it's understand what's going on. Me: sorry about what is up of above. the ai wri6it for me. cause i... don't know what is going on?., for i don't know what it is?

[@devinumiko5194]

Reminds me of watching movies as a small kid, before I really knew what they were saying but still enjoying the characters and stuff.

[@0NlRAPTOR]

you're right, and then you went and played and some of what you saw got incorporated into your playing. I think that may have been what the AI went through. It sort of understood but only on a surface level.

[@brycedurham7101]

I was thinking the same thing 😆.

[@nich_bot]

Great abstraction. You hit the nail on the head there. 😆 ...perhaps what the ai is trying to convey is beyond our current comprehensive abilities. Maybe we need to grow again ...?

[@caseygibson7266]

The actors deliver this nonsense amazingly. Especially the actress's speech at the end. It actually started to give me chills

[@ThreadBomb]

Hasslehoff has a great monolog in the sequel.

[@ahobimo732]

I know this comment is hella old, but I gotta say, I wholeheartedly agree. Even though the dialogue was nonsense, the delivery raised it up to damn near poetry. I'm not sure what it made me feel, but it definitely made me feel something!

[@joetrosclair8434]

I don’t see it as nonsense at all. I’ve always found it to have startling depth

[@Ralizah]

Who plays the woman? She did a hell of a job making that nonsense monologue at the end really compelling.

[@OscarSharp]

Elisabeth Gray

[@swans184]

There's some prose there that could almost sound profound. "He was a little late; I was going to be a moment. He looks at me, and he throws me out of his eyes."

[@Account-pq1it]

Some Nirvana lyrics right there.

[@JoinHolmes]

"I was going to be a moment." Isn't that just the saddest thing? It's beautiful.

[@kawabungadad8945]

That single tear was money.

[@abhijitbharadwaj5369]

"Because, I don't know what you're talking about" "That, that was all the time." Sickest burn in AI history xD

[@julka1274]

Cuz this is nonsens

[@mindofmiri1578]

"But I'm the one who got on this rock...with a child...and then I left the other two." Tragic.

[@brycedurham7101]

Human existence on this space rock we call Earth in a nutshell. 😁

[@vincent_hall]

:,-(

[@jarrodfeldman3955]

"I was going to be a moment" I really did feel that way too much.

[@LilDeuceDeuce]

That's a pretty amazing performance at the end, to convey that much emotion when you're basically just spouting gibberish

[@cortster12]

You worried for when AI becomes more creative than humans? Because when that day comes in a few decades, the only thing humans will be able to do is have fun (because jobs would be taken over by AI fully one day as well). And while, well, fun, it won't be a satisfying existence.

[@akodiaemmanuel2222]

Bose-Einstein dude i swear to god. I always say this too. Thats all humans will do...have fun. AI will be much better at everything

[@lb3724]

Ah yes..... because that is what ALL people without an income or money from a job to work at do.. they HAVE FUN all day! DUH!

[@ricarleite]

I think these AI experiments are great exercises for starting actors.

[@aubekin]

on the other hand, creative works are also... fun. It doesn't matter that someone is better than you in, for example, guitar playing. It doesn't make it less "fun" to do it yourself

[@Quake442]

It sounds like when you watch a movie from a language you're just learning and you don't understand shit.

[@erelde_]

As someone who learned English: this was a very disturbing experience as I realized how much of my understanding of English is based on context, there were entire sentences I "didn't hear" as if I was 10 and learned English all over again. Those sentences when out of context of this film would be perfectly "fine", but not here...

[@thatpspguy]

Take the words and relate them to pure emotion. It will help you understand the underlying tones of the story and what it actually means.

[@carloci770]

the actors made a hell of a performance! I watched it a second time focusing on the voice, the faces, the empathy, almost compleately forgetting about the words, and it was totally emotional, I can't describe it properly... But I want to try... I was genuinely sad both for him and for her... When I break up with someone or someone break up wiht me, I have 2 different kind of pain, and in this movie, it was like i could feel them both, at the same time.

[@gergotorok4317]

it was like watching a movie written by someone who is learning the language and can't understand human concepts it was fascinating trying to figure out what the writer was thinking, then i realized it probably wasn't thinking about what could this all mean, just putting words together the actors really did a great job, especially her monologue at the end had it not been for the part when they are both asking the other that they don't know what the other means, i would have been convinced it was something more than a chatbot

[@maniacalo2901]

+Erelde Everything you understand is based on context, in every language.

[@JohnnyDoeDoeDoe]

This is what reading Shakespeare feels like to me

[@ThreadBomb]

You should watch Upstart Crow.

[@brycedurham7101]

Saame!

[@ingeonsa]

Sometimes it seems like the English language is slowly digressing back to its roots

[@CaseyEdema]

😅😅😅😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 oh boy !!!

[@Pandalka]

AI in a nutshell: "What do you mean?" "What you're talking about?" "I don't know." *pukes eyeballs*

[@mehdihoseyni97]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@mehdihoseyni97]

And😂😂😂no one's care😂😂it's totally normal 😂

[@brightblackhole2442]

@@mehdihoseyni97 having eyeballs in your mouth is not normal

[@nightgodd7865]

"Perhaps I should take it from here?" "...." "I'm not actually gonna do anything."

[@altuloghin589]

That would have worked better if it were implemented like a moment when the character speaks directly to the camera (like in House of Cards, or Fleabag)... It's an entertaining experiment, nevertheless.

[@bubbeline8217]

that was one of the funniest things, lmfaoo

[@billyandrew]

Cleverly put. Vocal intent versus inner conversation with self. _'Perhaps'_ is the giveaway, ie, I don't really want to, so dissuade me, please.

[@zitzle]

I think the machine is self aware. "I don't know what you're talking about." "That's right." Basically summarizes the audience of this film.

[@eltouristoduo]

do you mean it summarize how the audience reacts to it? that was my reaction. I saw little point in them doing this. And I think similar things were done before AI or computers...probably as some film school project somewhere in the world, but definitely in writing. Like the acting though, I liked their 'interpretations of nonsense'. Maybe that was more the point than anything....displaying that struggle, idk.

[@docconi]

It appears people say "I don't know" a lot in science fiction.

[@LiveDissection]

Probably because inexplicable phenomena that exerts dire consequences begging explication tends to be a major mechanism of conflict in sci-fi films...

[@RialuCaos]

I don't know what you're talking about

[@4TheRecord]

You can't tell me that! The day was sunny and it hurt me when he spoke words that sense none it made.

[@PeteKowalsky]

I don't care.

[@TheDeadSource]

People say "I don't know" a lot in all fiction and in a lot of non-fiction, too. That's one of the most common phrases that exist in the English language. :P

[@carnivalcadaver69]

Still better than twilight.

[@jaeharper2671]

That movie was 8 years ago. I think it's time to move on.

[@sweatt4237]

We will never forget.

[@comradegeneralvladimirpoot1313]

Yea your right but it still is better than Ghostbusters 3 will be.

[@sweatt4237]

Leon Trotsky shit myself

[@Fatherlake]

Oh, IKR!?

[@harryfyhr4010]

I didn't mean to be a virgin I mean he was weak I hought I'd changed my mind he was crazy to take it out

[@punky2deep]

LMAO

[@abyssgazer9050]

Crying rn lmfao

[@walditamaniko]

Hahahaha lol

[@hustinyano.a]

And even if he would've done at all He couldn't come anymore

[@Loansome_]

"I don't know what you're talking about." "That's right."

[@vincent_hall]

That, that was all the time during this movie.

[@DialecticRed]

@@vincent_hall most underrated comment ever

[@MrVanillaCaramel]

The eerie part is when the script DOES make sense such as "I need you to explain to me what you say. I don't understand what you are talking about."

[@linoeleven]

And there are instances where we can sort of peek into the thought process of the A.I..... like towards the end, "He throws me out of his eyes" as if to say "he doesn't see me any more" or something like that. It really is pretty fascinating how it thinks.

[@SugarFang]

I'm not sure that the AI is that complex. It's probably just a more advanced Markov chain.

[@KokoroKaisen]

Really this is how an ai understands how our language works and it's fascinating. I think it goes to show how linguistics can work in different ways. Different languages and dialects use phrases that are weird to us but only because our culture has different values and interests. There's a statement in the end dialog that I believe is "I could have been a moment" (?) That's such a surreal thing to say but it has a potent meaning to be taken from it.

[@MrVanillaCaramel]

I hope they make more of these! It's kinda like Alice in Wonderland.

[@snazzydrew]

no joke, when the actress said "whatever you need to know about the presence of a story... I'm a little bit of a boy on the floor" i got the chills. the AI knows there is no story.

[@icemario19]

This was like a Bad Lip Reading video

[@patrickmanion9646]

Exactly what I thought!

[@jmerb78]

me too! haha! neural networks must like those videos too!

[@jamesoglover]

Ding ding!

[@maniacalo2901]

Definitely was, haha.

[@maniacalo2901]

Just watched some earlier.

[@natefin6169]

I was watching AI with Robert D.J. And saw the section on this film so I had to watch it in its fullness. I'm not going to lie....this feels exactly like my dreams sometimes. It got me to thinking about how through our day, we take in all of this information in images, text, sounds, and all of our other ways. We then shut down at the end of it all and our brain tries to make sense of the data we collected, or at least we recall some of that data in random spurts. This is what makes up our dreams....raw data...that we process at random. I think this is what is happening with this AI. We push in so much data that the end result feels like a dream...its odd and off-putting in so many ways, but then it also feels somewhat natural and clear. Maybe I'm alone in this...or maybe I need therapy.

[@OscarSharp]

Nate Fin After a few years knee deep in this topic I have arrived at essentially the same thinking. There are many interesting implications.

[@iffyschannel]

This is exactly how my dreams are when I look back and try to make sense of them.

[@el7ara191]

I've said the same thing when I watched this short film, I totally agree.

[@ryanrivard1455]

Our brains work very hard interpreting information in a manner that is not stressful to us. It works to keep us safe? (I think) This film is like talking to a mentally ill person who doesn't understand how to convey information to another person in a harmonious safe way. It uses and conveys information in a way only it understands? Like how do you convey feelings of being sad if you don't have feelings at all and have never experienced them?

[@petemartyn]

I give a lot of credence to the idea that dreams represent a process of "neural pruning" -- our brain functions by making connections and shortcuts and patterns, and that process requires editing! Dreams might be the experience of our brains essentially testing to see whether recent connections or perceived similarities between memories or bits of sensory data are new ideas worth preserving or just incidental gibberish that it's OK to let go of. I'm no expert but I think that does parallel a lot of machine learning. Throw a bunch of data together, pick out connections and find patterns, edit, repeat. Sometimes the results feel profound, or silly, or meaningless noise.

[@chrizchanang]

This feels like what a person's would dream would be like if you were to somehow project it for other people to see, haha. Events jump around sporadically with no real meaning and the dialogue may seem like it makes sense at the time it's happening, but when you think about it, it's incoherent.

[@cagedgandalf3472]

Reading this, maybe that is how AI's think they are still on the "dream level". They only need something to wake them up.

[@caseycrocker]

"He looks at me, then throws me out of his eyes, then says he will sleep with me" is quite a poetic statement, too.

[@CashKingD]

Ok so here's my inteurpretation of the film: A dude moves to an asteroid with his family, but he'd only able to bring his son for some reason. He starts dating this girl who becomes the boy's stepmom. Unfortunately, the guy isn't very fulfilling in bed and so she starts cheating on him with their mutual friend. She tries to tell the guy she's been cheating on him without trying to break his heart, but the friend is more blatant and kind of rubs it in his face. This makes the guy extremely sad and he starts hallucinating, and he thinks the girl calls him just to say how much better she was at sex than him, so he kills himself. Then, the girl explains to the audience what their deal was and why she cheated on him. As she explains it, she feels worse and worse about what she did, and she starts crying.

[@AkkarisFox]

what an interesting interpretation of a screenplay I thought was meaningless.

[@sly_zamasu7690]

This is soooo underrated

[@michatuodziecki2079]

Well. Maybe AI don't know what it's wrote, but actors must have some idea what they want to play. That's why I think, that this have some interpretation. And yes, suicide Is main theme of the story. Girl love that man, but I think that sex was not the main problem, but the thing, that he "throws her out from his eyes". He see her, but he don't feel the same. Maybe some things he left behind still are to close for his heart to leave them.

[@LimitedSpartan]

This was seriously some grade A acting.

[@beta511ee4]

Was it really? Aside from the very end, it felt wooden and by-the-numbers.

[@SpaceMissile]

i agree with op; it was really well-done. self-aware, and it realizes that it's a little zany. i get the sense that they're not taking themselves entirely seriously, but it is absolutely perfect for this short film.

[@AdamCarter765]

Honestly you can’t really tell how good they were since nothing they said actually made any sense.

[@nickaroundnite]

@@beta511ee4 it was chaotic but they still managed to put emotion into their parts, even if it was just silly nonsense. thats good acting. but you could probably do better, yeah?

[@jimmatthews5993]

@@beta511ee4 i don't agree with you- given a very limited script, they managed to bring it to life

[@StekliCujo]

I think I understand now what HAL 9000 was going through, poor bastard.

[@xdhalis]

shit

[@Fatherlake]

Lol

[@cormano64]

#HalDidNothingWrong

[@fraydizs7302]

i legit almost spit my water out lol

[@patrickdoyle81]

"He looks at me, and he throws me out of his eyes."

[@SpaceMissile]

😭

[@nill5078]

That's still my favorite quote XD

[@vincent_hall]

Is that a bit like purging someone from your memory? You literally can't see them anymore.

[@cagedgandalf3472]

@@vincent_hall Nice analysis, honestly I was laughing halfway.

[@k.stewart2510]

@@vincent_hall #deallocation.

[@TheCalm25]

The end was so sad. I felt so bad for the difficult decisions she was forced to make. But her strength is inspiring.

[@temirlankaiyrbekov4250]

could you please summarize the plot a bit?

[@sly_zamasu7690]

@David P 😂

[@johnprofit7434]

@David P precisely lol

[@Gambit771]

You think she's strong! Do you respect yourself?

[@CharlisonX]

there's no strength in her actions It's archetypal. if you know where to look. Like Don Quixote of Sci-Fi movies, we have the nerdy guy, the girl, and the cool guy. and at a glance it's obvious that the girl already chose the cool guy and is keeping the nerdy guy in the maybe-zone. and weird things happen in the background, and then the nerdy guy is thrown into difficult situations, involving space and/or guns, then the cool guy dies and the nerdy guy weeps him. Ending with the girl having to jump ship to the nerdy guy. and she tries to convince him and herself that it's not, she's not jumping ship, she was his all along. it was all part of her plan. she's in control. She's in control. (tears start falling)

[@dramawind]

I laughed at the part where he pulls an eyeball out of his mouth. Most random shit ever...

[@astromec6303]

Dramawind 😂😂😂 IKR !

[@whocares435-z9v]

"In the future, humour will be randomly generated."

[@AnxiousEducator]

WELL, I HAVE TO GO TO THE SKULL

[@AkkarisFox]

*goes to the skull*

[@omagon9]

I think it meant Bathroom, cause "Going to the head" is a thing people say when they're going to the Bathroom. The AI just used Skull instead of Head cause 'technically' that's the same thing.

[@corasundae]

@@omagon9 It's not that smart. It just predicts what letters are going to come after the other letters.

[@tragicomica]

I'll write that to my friends the next time I go to school.

[@fayezbayzidify]

Yes perhaps I should take it from here , followed by , no im not going to do anything lol

[@SpaceMissile]

that's a really good way to square up, assert dominance, and then deescalate before anything serious happens. Learning that for the real world.

[@benzellmer1239]

"Nothing is going to be thing" My favorite line.

[@konstantingeist3587]

it's basically like watching some series' latest season without ever watchng any of its epsodes before. "i was the one who was going to be 100 years old" oh she's making a reference to somethung which happened in season 4 or something

[@MrCheminee]

It was like it was written by Tommy Wiseau!

[@ksaraf23]

You...took the words right out of my mouth!

[@mundotaku_org]

You are tearing me apart !!!!

[@MrCheminee]

mundotaku I got the shirt ;)

[@Jakeishness]

dont insult the poor AI!

[@Xortopower]

Yeah but Wiseau is funny

[@brianwilson4824]

People who are just learning English are going to watch this and just give up. Great performance!

[@guilhermedias9215]

asuhaushausauhsuahsahsuahsuhashas extamente isso

[@XtremeLetsPlay]

Still a better lovestory than twilight

[@vivienleduc]

true

[@amarcuccis]

I just got here looking for this comment.

[@jknvorneb]

classic

[@alobpreis]

Beat me to it. :P

[@ciara7172]

hilarious and original

[@kingramses8361]

Rick and Morty Season 3, Episode 4: Interdimensional Space Cable 3

[@brycedurham7101]

I'm in 2020 and this comment is funny to me.

[@CalvinKlain]

My man! (or woman?)

[@patato_potato6236]

With the way the characters were acting, I felt like I should have understood what they were saying lmao but I don't

[@hooshjames]

"Then he threw me out if his eyes." Still a better love story than Twilight.

[@j.t.839]

David Lynch and this A.I. should team up and write a screenplay.

[@spikeburch]

YES

[@fradesimone]

+Spike Burch it would be the most absurd film in the history

[@immongrafic9925]

That actually might be interesting for a director like Lynch. But instead of feeding the AI with a ton of sci-fi or horror scripts, feed it with only other David Lynch scripts. The results would be the sum total of everything Lynch has tried to achieve with his films. Then let him try and figure out what to do with it.

[@j.t.839]

+Immon Grafic That would be awesome! "When Jupiter and Saturn meet/Oh what a crop of mummy wheat"

[@conorhogan7575]

This is incredible and unnerving. The directing, music, and acting were flawless given the source material. The AI wrote in sentences as if it knows what English sounds like, but doesn't understand it. However, it still manages to convey a couple of key thoughts that really make you consider whether it's an AI mimicry of human speech, or if it's trying to convey its own ideas. Everything about this is haunting, yet so enjoyable. Great job everyone.

[@MastaChafa]

Now I know how french movies are made

[@crystal_4236]

Lmaoo

[@glistera]

I cannot stop watching this, I've watched it about ten times this week. It's the funniest, most emotionally stirring piece of cinema, the acting is phenomenal and logical sense is completely unnecessary. Bravo!

[@caiquebcapel]

Well, the only thing I can presume is that Pied Piper didn't work out.

[@fofopads4450]

They pivoted again

[@Ramix09]

+Rodolfo Padilla Ruiz What if, pied piper was a company that produces computer generated short films, in which our CEO stars as a protagonist. Would you be very interested, somewhat interested or not interested? Which one? which one? which one?

[@mr.DorianJames]

too soon

[@TalkingTechnology]

They pivoted into a screen-play / songwriting startup that uses neural networks to create unique works of art. This sounds genius and more doable than implementing middle-out. Take that Gavin fucking Belson.

[@PeteKowalsky]

Gilfoyle the other day shook his own pocket and it was great. Dinesh looked like a great weekend had to go back to the next day. Jared thanks for your time and consideration of the day I am looking forward to hearing from you soon as possible to get the same as the one I have. A great day in the morning and I have to go to blast. Post a pic when I am looking forward to your account. Bachmann is a very good at all times and then you have to be able to make sure that you can see the status.

[@HoD999x]

i don't know what they are talking about

[@Joshua-ew6ks]

I think is an about a girl who killed a jerk that took (or tried to) take advanced of her. Another boy who she may or may not like thinks he might have killed the jerk. Maybe she framed the other boy who may be mentally challenged. My second guess: Or the girl could be insane. She may not have intended to lead any boy about how she felt. But a boy (the jerk) try to get his way with her and she killed him. Then she is unable to process what she has done. Instead, she chooses to remember the jerk as a boy she created in her mind. Or possibly she projected that boy onto the jerk the whole time. Then the other boy found the gun and is probably just as insane as she is. Is possible they all are in a mental instruction for the crazy. Which would explain how some of their words get mixed us as each other hears them. Or is possible the AI was on drugs when it was writing this script.

[@HoD999x]

Josh i was making a joke because they say it so often in this "Movie"

[@xyhmo]

That...that was all the time.

[@ЛадьяШахматная]

what do you mean?

[@dustinrausch5008]

That's normal.

[@darkowl9]

Solaris 2: Office Space.

[@lukehawksbee]

"I ... don't know what you're talking about"

[@PeteKowalsky]

I don't care.

[@Account-pq1it]

I got a strong hint of Existenz in there too.

[@Kento_nanami_the_2nd]

nailed it!

[@kinoepigrafe]

Well, as you can see in the intro Solaris was also part of the mix, so it does make sense.

[@DialecticRed]

Here's the entire script for anyone who is interested. I Typed the whole thing down - can't copy and paste from a video, so I may have made a couple typos. Enjoy! (H or Hauk is Tom Middleditch, H2 is the girl and C or Coffey is the British guy) Sunspring INT. SHIP We see H pull a book from a shelf, flip through it while speaking, and then put it back. H: In a future with mass unemployment, young people are forced to sell blood. That’s the first thing I can do. H2: You should see the boys and shut up. I was the one who was going to be a hundred years old. H: I saw him again. The way you were sent to me… that was a big honest idea. I am not a bright light. C: Well, I have to go to the skull. I don’t know. He picks up a light screen and fights the security force of the particles of a transmission on his face. H: (Continuing) What do you mean? C: (Smiles) I don’t know anything about any of this. H: (To Hauk, taking his eyes from his mouth) Then what? H2: There is no answer C: (Frowning) We’re going to seen the money. H: (Reading) “All right, you can’t tell me that.” Steps back. Coffey is still going through. C: I was coming to that thing becuase you were so pretty. H: I don’t know. I don’t know what you’re talking about. C: That’s right. H: So what are you doing? She looks at him for a moment, then smiles at him. H: You don’t have to be a doctor. H2: I’m not sure. I don’t know what your’re talking about. H: I want to see you too. H2: What do you mean? H: I’m sorry, but I’m sure you wouldn’t even touch me. H2: I don’t know what you’re talking about. H: The principle is completely constructed for the same time. H2: (Smiling) It was all about you to be true. H: You didn’t even see the movie with the rest of the base. H2: I don’t know. H: I don’t care. H2: I know that it’s a consequence. Whatever you want to know about the presence of the story, I’m a little bit of a boy on the floor. H: I don’t know. I just have to ask you to explain to me what you say. H2: What do you mean? H: Because I don’t know what you’re talking about. H2: That was all the time. H: I know that. H2: I don’t know. H: (Angry) It would be a good time. I think I could have been my life. He starts to shake. H: (Cont’d) It may never be forgiven, but that is just too bad. I have to leave, but I’m not free of the world. C: Yes. Perhaps I should take it from here. I’m not going to do something. H: You can’t afford to take this anywhere. It’s not a dream. But I’ve got a good time to stay there. C: Well, I think you can still be back on the table. H: Mmm. It’s a damn thing scared to say. Nothing is going to be a thing but I was the one that got on this rock with a child and then I left the other two. The scene changes. H is standing in the stars and sitting on the floor. He takes a seat on the counter and pulls the camera over to his back. He is on the phone. He cuts the laser gun from the edge of the room and puts it in his mouth. He sees a black hole in the floor leading to the man on the roof. He comes up behind him to protect him. He is still standing next to him. He looks through the door and the door closes. He looks and the bag from his backpack and starts to cry. H2: Well, there’s the situation with me and the light on the ship. The guy was trying to stop me. He was like a baby and he was gone. I was worried about him. But even if he would have done it all, he couldn’t come any more. I didn’t mean to be a virgin. I mean, he was weak. And I thought I’d change my mind. He was crazy to think it out. It was a long time ago. He was a little late. I was going to be a moment. I just wanted to tell you that I was much better than he did. I had to stop him and I couldn’t even tell. I didn’t want to hurt him. I’m sorry. I know I don’t like him. I can go home and be so bad and I love him. So I can get him all the way over here and find the square and go to the game with him and she won’t show up. Then I’ll check it out. But I’m going to see him when he gets to me. He looks at me and he throws me out of his eyes. Then he said he’ll go to bed with me.

[@f4k4]

Taking his eyes from his mouth could have been “looking away from the other character’s mouth” and not literally taking his eyes from his own mouth

[@getowtofheyah3161]

"He looks at me, and then he throws me out of his eyes." The way she says this makes this line the most poetic and meaningful in the entire script.

[@kspesonen]

English is going to evolve in the next 50 years and this short film is going to be not only intelligible but brilliant.

[@ShadowArtist]

With lot's of revisions and extrapolation. This actually could be a brilliant storyline about a love triangle between a man who brain is half-computer, whom starts having hallucinations, who loves that lady that is a co-worker, but she chooses to have a relationship with the smarmy guy all in a dystopian future. Some of the characters dialogue could be revised and be flashbacks to help flesh out background story on each of the three characters. I would love to see this revised and added to a bit. This actually has a lot of potential IMO.

[@Gambit771]

It would be the usual, generic feminist claptrap you see in most films.

[@bowehj96]

"I need you... to explain to me... what you say." "What do you mean?" "Because I don't know what you're talking about." I love it how the AI scriptwriter even managed to get self-referential. Clever girl!

[@krfilms]

I think this was directed brilliantly. great sense of picking an objective and sticking to it the whole way through. actors were spot one with their subtext.

[@polymphus]

"Nothing is going to be a thing but I was the one that got on this rock" damn, robot

[@thealexdenney]

"But I'm going to see him when he gets to me. He looks at me, and he throws me out of his eyes. And then he says he'll go to bed with me." An absolutely beautiful performance from Elisabeth Gray, giving so much meaning to every meaningless line of that monologue.

[@Gambit771]

How can you give meaning if it is meaningless? Don't you mean gives emotion to that meaningless line.

[@OneAngryAsian]

"I was worried about him. And even if he would have done it all, he couldn't come anymore. I didn't mean to be a virgin... I mean, he was weak. I thought I'd change my mind. He was CRAZY to take it out. ...It was a long time ago... he was a little late... I was gonna be a moment. I just wanted to tell you, I was much better than he did. I had to stop him, I couldn't even tell. I didn't want to hurt him. I'm sorry, I don't like him. But I can go home... and be so bad... and I love it..." Just leaving this here.

[@peterbelanger4094]

Just a symptom of how tragically sick our society is.

[@quiksix25]

That's what happens when a computer pulls lines out of multiple screenplays. Makes no damn sense at all

[@robson_leao]

Machines gonna kill us because we are weak, but will make some drama before, telling they loves us and don't mean to hurt us, but will do the killings without thinking to much about, cause he is bad and love it.

[@SatanEnjoyer]

The reason why many people in the comments can't understand this short, is because most of them are under 15 maybe less lol. Did they feed this AI a lot of smut too?

[@quiksix25]

Mako Mankanshoku No one can understand it because it doesn't make a lick of sense. Just random lines that don't add up to anything of substance.

[@CorranH99]

Ok who fed the computer David Lynch scripts?

[@ThreadBomb]

This movie has rendered Lynch redundant.

[@obwe]

Irrelevant, even. I don't know.

[@Benimation]

At least the AI knows that it doesn't know what it's talking about

[@joaquing.3258]

This was brilliant. I would watch a feature film written by the AI formerly known as Jetson. Benjamin is clearly not afraid to tell their story, no matter how nonsensical and all over the place it is. Now that is a movie I would pay money to see!

[@darkersideofmagic9892]

This reminds me of exactly how dreams play out. The words are unstructured and surreal and it's all AI and I love it!!!

[@johnprofit7434]

Strangely enough, that monologue at the end was incredible.

[@MIMCKMedia]

KZbin originals "A.I." series brought me here

[@ChookaParkerTV]

Me too

[@erikb.prestbury1858]

Yup 🙂

[@Kevin-jc1fx]

6 years later, ChatGPT can ACE screenwriting in the blink of an eye.

[@mabellinck6005]

This is absolutely ridiculous but the actors are amazing

[@nivellrayda8117]

I have a feeling this is exactly how we all speak in the future. Think about it. We already tweet about random meaningless shit.

[@peterbelanger4094]

That's because a majority of people will stop using their own brains and let the AI assistants do all the "thinking" for them. It started with calculators and spell check. We're fucked. It is going to be an apocalypse of the stupid.

[@creamwarrior]

+Peter Belanger ok dude calm down.

[@peterbelanger4094]

I'm male, how could I ever possible have an understanding of my emotions?

[@angrygoat2602]

+Peter Belanger Yes, you're right! There have been constant and unstoppable advancements in engineering, computer science, physics, chemistry, ethics, math, psychology, neuroscience, medicine, with scientific progress accelerating more and more with each passing day, and today's humans are more intelligent than they have ever been throughout all of recorded history, all because of these calculators rotting everybody's brains! Did you know that mathematicians have ALWAYS used calculators? When people were still trying to understand circles, people weren't doing the fucking math in their heads. They were using abacuses. Do you think calculators are the silent killer or something? That calculators have been waiting tens of thousands of years to suck our brains out or something? No, you don't think that, because you don't think at all. You're not a scientist, you're not a mathematician, you probably don't have a meaningful college degree.

[@jhnchapa]

+Peter Belanger I want to disagree with you, but a part of me thinks you might be on to something.

[@ro9ue]

I can't help but feel the AI is like a kid that doesn't understand the language, but is trying to communicate something profound.

[@higgins382]

I understood this. Then I took my medicine.

[@nickmetts]

"You should see the boy and shut up. I was the one who was going to be a hundred years old." I need to find a way to incorporate this into as many conversations as possible!

[@chp9]

Here from "The Age of A.I. (KZbin Original)" and I have to say this is game-changing!! Can't wait what could happen next...

[@ED-988]

The algorithm used for the making of this movie is J. J. ABRAMS.

[@Diggnuts]

This alone has more substance than every Jar Jar Abrams movie combined...

[@effkanurr]

someday we will have computers that will read our brains to see what kind of movies we like then generate one for us in seconds.

[@dannydelion1855]

We're closer to that DAY than you may realize: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIOTon1nbLemrMU While this is just an interpretation of what a person is seeing in real time, the source for actual mind images for an A.I. to interpret remains the same: the visual cortex

[@peterbelanger4094]

That's because 90% of the population are complete morons, easily amused like babies with keys dangling in front of them, and that's how the AIs will treat all the mindless drones that surrender their intellectual capacity to the machines. That movie it will show you will in reality not be much of anything, maybe a box moving in a circle, but you will be so dumbed down from so much AI useage that you won't care. drool............................................................

[@dannydelion1855]

Cue the well worn Idiocracy comparision

[@dannydelion1855]

As comedies tend to be...

[@seabass9937]

that last bit was a work of art

[@jonathanhart8208]

I was waiting for the tear drop with the most anticipation I've ever had.

[@abeermahir767]

Feels like I'm watching an alien TV drama with Rick and Morty's Inter-Gallactic cable

[@tetsuorocks]

In a way, it's almost like the actors where looking at an ink blot and making their own interpretation of the image. Beautifully done. I love the acting so much.

[@staudinga]

"I don't know what you're talking about!" "That's right." I will use that response in the future.

[@AndiLevicky]

3:16 "I'm a little bit of a boy on the floor" - best line.

[@sarcasm-83]

I'm going to spend this weekend being a little bit of a boy on the floor for sure.

[@8523wsxc]

I've heard Benjamin is distancing itself from this work and now wants to be addressed as Alan Smithee.

[@Message167]

"I think I could've been my life." Amazing.

[@leen9881]

This actually has so much meaning. It offers a lot of room for interpretation and it leaves you very confused and wondering. It also tells a lot about human communication and emotion and written by AI makes it simply mindblowing.

[@HorrorBorealis]

I personally loved it. Please make the AI write a horror movie next.

[@stereoroid]

Made more sense than Waiting For Godot.

[@zenko4187]

Hilariously perfect.

[@zerge83]

I would have said "tree of life"

[@positronicfeed]

It made more sense than a lot of shite Hollywood pumps out these days.

[@GBart]

lol you didn't get Waiting for Godot

[@oscill8ocelot]

lol you're pretending that you got Waiting for Godot so you can make fun of someone for not getting Waiting for Godot

[@TehPompkinHead]

Wow I'd love to listen to that song all the time. Like if we could get that separate, or like a downloadable version. I would even consider buying it.

[@fisadev]

thanks for this! the song is beautiful, and more so knowing its origins :) (I work with AI)

[@sixesandsevensus]

GOOD FOR U BRO NICE HUMBLE BRAG

[@AndyWenmanMusicVideo]

Why did you name the song Home on the Land when the lyric is Home on the Road? I think the idea of a Home on the Road is way more provocative.

[@iconoclast137]

"i don't want to be honest with you" is a great pickup line

[@nexuslux]

This is amazing. I'm surprised how much the actors got in character.

[@rspeak5768]

"I got on this rock, with a child, and then I left the other two." I know it's nonsensical, but it's interesting that 2 humans worked on this project. A weird interpretation could be that the short film is the AI's "child", and that the two humans brought it into existence (on earth, aka 'this rock') but now the AI is planning to "leave them"

[@saidakhu]

'... gave it a cup of really hot tea, and turned it on.' Sounds improbable.

[@joeldalais4848]

sounds like my brain in the mornings...

[@OscarSharp]

Congratulations, you are one hoopy frood.

[@TimBaoht]

If you look at this from the perspective of the first guy being the AI, and him struggling with being on the cusp of sentient, it's really kind'a creepy!

[@LukeAps]

"Alright people, we're performing a piece written by a computer Neural Network. It doesn't make a damn bit of sense, but I want you to do one thing for me. Perform it like you believe it. Like it means the world to you. Give this grap, more heart and meaning than anything else has ever had in your life."

[@OscarSharp]

Lapapsnow A touch more nuanced than that, but basically yes.

[@tommytiptoetv1396]

It would have been awesome to see Nic Cage in this

[@MickeyValenz]

here's a PDF of the screenplay www.docdroid.net/lCZ2fPA/sunspring-final.pdf.html

[@JoinHolmes]

The speed in which I downloaded that!

[@Spacecookie-]

I couldn't even tell.

[@LeoP2008]

Someone sent this to me saying it was like "50 Shades of Grey but for Siri." I didn't know what they were talking about but read it all the same. Now, watching the movie, I can't stop laughing AND being impressed/intrigued all at the same time. And ironically, this is the EXACT OPPOSITE reaction I got from seeing 50 Shades of Grey.

[@DIRTYBadgerMTB]

Turing test: FAILED

[@gorgolyt]

D- Sentences generally made grammatical sense.

[@peterbelanger4094]

The AI itself even admitted that it did know jack squat. repeatedly.

[@jaipreetsingh3789]

I dont know what you mean... hehe... scary shit though..

[@positronicfeed]

Yes, but if we used script writing as a Turing test a lot of humans would be in trouble too.

[@comradejosephstalin6886]

I bet it would be trash but not incoherent drunken babbling...

[@Rych]

I quite enjoyed this, it reminded me of bad lip-reading (kinda). The complete randomness appeals to my odd side :)

[@straytakermusic]

I thought the exact same thing.

[@maniacalo2901]

It's good to have an odd side, just as long as it doesn't kill anyone :p

[@Fatherlake]

Same here! I love this sort of thing.

[@rodrigo-vl7bi]

what does the word "odd" mean? select the right one www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=odd

[@Rych]

Eccentric/unusual

[@RedNiel100]

"I don't know." "I don't care!" "I know." I don't know (lol) why I find that so funny XD

[@ohbadgewhuh4129]

The constant "I don't know"'s and "I don't know about any of this" Sounds like the A.I was freaking out at the subject matter and stipulations put on it to create something.

[@gunnersubbu]

"There's no answer." HOLY SHIT THE MACHINES HAVE FIGURED THAT OUT

[@Kronocide]

Better title = I Don't Know What You're Talking About: The Movie

[@misterdeity]

Someone has to stop M. Night. Please!!!

[@melindadawn5]

😂🤣😂😂

[@calemcdowell]

I dont know why.... but I loved it... I guess I filled in what was going on in my head...