{"id":71336,"date":"2022-12-12T15:38:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T13:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=71336"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:06:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:06:33","slug":"deepmind-trains-ai-to-draft-rough-film-scripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/deepmind-trains-ai-to-draft-rough-film-scripts\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepMind trains AI to draft rough film scripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DeepMind has created an AI tool, Dramatron, which generates character and location descriptions, plot points, and dialogues for film scripts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">Introducing Dramatron, a new tool for writers to co-write theatre and film scripts with a language model. \ud83c\udfad<\/p>\n<p>Dramatron can interactively co-create new stories complete with title, characters, location descriptions and dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Try it yourself now: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/86zalyXBWQ\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/86zalyXBWQ<\/a> <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/qWkUH4NoWF\\\">pic.twitter.com\/qWkUH4NoWF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DeepMind (@DeepMind) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeepMind\/status\/1601237890708537344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">December 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script>\\n<\/p>\n<p>According to the developers, writers will be able to compile, edit, and revise Dramatron texts into the script they want.<\/p>\n<p>DeepMind researchers asked 15 experts from the film industry to assess the algorithm\u2019s performance. They said they would not use Dramatron to create a full play. In places, the AI&#8217;s outputs could be boilerplate, the experts added.<\/p>\n<p>However, the experts noted potential value of the tool for \\&#8221;generating creative ideas.\\&#8221; They said Dramatron could help build a world or explore alternative approaches by altering elements of the plot or characters.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-conversation=\\\"none\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">\u270f\ufe0f We interviewed 15 industry experts including playwrights, screenwriters and actors who produced work using Dramatron.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian company <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theatresports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@TheatreSports<\/a> edited co-written theatre scripts and performed them on stage in Plays By Bots to positive reviews. <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/FlGzIdCuqX\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/FlGzIdCuqX<\/a> <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/6gqnB8e1L9\\\">pic.twitter.com\/6gqnB8e1L9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DeepMind (@DeepMind) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeepMind\/status\/1601237894941016066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">December 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script>\\n<\/p>\n<p>As part of the experiment, the Canadian company Rapid Fire Theatre staged four plays that used \\&#8221;heavily edited and rewritten scripts\\&#8221; created with Dramatron.<\/p>\n<p>According to DeepMind&#8217;s representatives, in the performances, experienced actors with improvisational skills gave meaning to the algorithm\u2019s plays through performance and interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the productions received positive reviews.<\/p>\n<p>The developers noted that Dramatron can output fragments of text that were in the training data used to train the language model. Using a script created by the algorithm could lead to accusations of plagiarism, they added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\\u201cOne possible way to mitigate the consequences is to search for substrings in the output data with a human co-author to help detect plagiarism,\\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in December, DeepMind published results of testing the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/deepminds-ai-programmer-alphacode-reaches-human-level-performance\">AlphaCode code-writing algorithm<\/a>. The developers said the model had reached the level of a \\&#8221;junior programmer\\&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In November, the lab developed AI agents that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/deepmind-trains-ai-agents-to-interact-with-humans\">interact with people in a natural way<\/a> and learn from them.<\/p>\n<p>In October, DeepMind, with the help of artificial intelligence, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/deepmind-uses-ai-to-accelerate-matrix-multiplication\">accelerated matrix multiplication<\/a>, solving a fundamental problem in computer science.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog AI news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener nofollow\\\" title=\\\"\\\">ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeepMind created an AI tool, Dramatron, that generates character and location descriptions, plot points, and dialogues for film scripts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1474,167],"class_list":["post-71336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-deepmind","tag-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71338,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71336\/revisions\/71338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}