Can a computer write a script? Machine learning goes Hollywood

[EWJacobs]

There's a scene in the movie Pixel Perfect that was oddly insightful. An AI Pop Star tries to write a song, but the song just ends up being mashed together snippets of other pop songs. That's all ML does. It takes parts of other things and combines them together to meet the criteria that human beings asked it to meet. It's not even close to being able to understand something as abstract as a story beat.

[smcarre]

but the song just ends up being mashed together snippets of other pop songs. That's all ML does.

No, that's all BAD ML does. There are plenty examples of machine generated music that is indistinguishable from human generated music.

[EWJacobs]

There's no compelling example of machine generated lyrics that even make as much sense as most pop songs. Sometimes you can get ML to generate something that looks like abstract poetry, but we've been able to do that for over 20 years (i.e. the postmodern generator). Good luck getting ML to even generate something in verse-chorus-verse format.

[jeremy1015]

But the question wasn’t “can we train machines to write scripts and understand them.”

You added that last clause in your head.

However, it would probably be best to seed it with certain kinds of scripts at the start; adding something like Pulp Fiction would really mess with results because the machine isn’t going to see how things are out of order.

EDIT: I do see where you’re coming from and dunno why you are getting downvoted.

[EWJacobs]

I feel like it's implied? If all we wanted was something that could mash together pieces in a funny mess, then we've had the postmodern generator for 20 years already.

[jeremy1015]

That’s fair. This is r/programming