{"id":339402,"date":"2017-04-27T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/04\/26\/watch-david-hasselhoff-in-an-ai-scripted-short-film\/21|22057176"},"modified":"2017-04-27T07:11:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T23:11:00","slug":"watch-david-hasselhoff-in-an-ai-scripted-short-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/watch-david-hasselhoff-in-an-ai-scripted-short-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch David Hasselhoff in an AI-scripted short film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5qPgG98_CQ8?rel=0&#038;wmode=opaque\" width=\"640\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To make Benjamin, Sharp and Goodwin took a neural network, fed it a bunch of science fiction films and dribbled in plot hooks from a writing contest. Then they had it create a script for their sci-fi tale <em>Sunspring<\/em>, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/06\/09\/this-short-film-was-written-by-a-sci-fi-hungry-neural-network\/\">released<\/a> last year. The film, featuring <em>Silicon Valley<\/em>&#8216;s Thomas Middleditch, is an enjoyably incoherent mess that somehow gets across its characters&#8217; emotional journeys. But the short film <em>It&#8217;s No Game<\/em> goes deeper down the meta-hole, inserting <em>Sunspring<\/em> into its plot as a world-changing film that leads the Benjamin AI to take over people&#8217;s actions &#8212; and write the dialogue for the drama of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>To sum up this meta-tangled mess: A director and AI researcher built an artificial intelligence that wrote a bonkers script for one film, then the humans had it write another one with even more self-aware references and commentary. &#8220;Who am I?&#8221; Hasselhoff asks the camera at the end of <em>It&#8217;s No Game<\/em> after he&#8217;s been puppeteered by AI-controlled nanobots. Then he gets up and walks away wearing his iconic red Baywatch shorts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/hss\/storage\/midas\/6012a5e59ba5cfaf41a22fae8f96ad5e\/205206918\/ItsNoGame.png\" \/>Robots are slowly taking more and more jobs &#8212; and soon, they&#039;ll come for the writers (gulp). That&#039;s the pitch behind director Oscar Sharp and AI researcher Ross Goodwin&#039;s short film It&#039;s No Game, in which an artificial intelligence swoops in during&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-339402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}