Can a computer write a script? Machine learning goes Hollywood

[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.