Sunspring 8 years old

Sunspring is a short film about three people living in a weird future, possibly on a space station, probably in a love triangle. You know it's the future because H (played with neurotic gravity by Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch) is wearing a shiny gold jacket, H2 (Elisabeth Gray) is playing with computers, and C (Humphrey Ker) announces that he has to "go to the skull" before sticking his face into a bunch of green lights. It sounds like your typical sci-fi B-movie, complete with an incoherent plot. Except Sunspring isn't the product of Hollywood hacks—it was written entirely by an AI. To be specific, it was authored by a recurrent neural network called long short-term memory, or LSTM for short. At least, that's what we'd call it. The AI named itself Benjamin.

Credits

Sunspring Cast

Name Character
Thomas Middleditch He was 34, now 42 years old as H

Sunspring Crew

Name Department
Mike Robertson as Sound. He was 31 (now 39) years old Sound
Sunspring poster
Sunspring (8 years)

  • Release day: Thursday, June 09, 2016
  • Runtime: 9 minutes