A.I. and Screenwriting

Whether you like it or not, Artificial Intelligence has arrived and is not going anywhere.

Make no mistake, we are living in the future. We store millions of files in a piece of hardware the size of a pinky toe. We converse face-to-face while thousands of miles away from each other. We have cars that drive themselves. We have personal computers and entertainment systems built into tiny metal boxes that fit into our pockets. We even have amazing robots that can run, jump, swim, fly, and speak.

Despite what you’ve read in the headlines on social media and the internet — thankfully — we have yet to create an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can write an amazing screenplay. In fact, we haven’t even created one that writes something as good as the worst B-movie.

Instead, the AI we’ve created writes somewhat coherent gibberish in roughly screenplay format. In spite of what the furtive social media salespeople at Chat GPT or OpenAI or the next big “fully-integrated solutions-based AI tools company” would have you believe.

Hollywood and tech fans are right to still raise eyebrows in response to any headline claiming AI has written a screenplay that was anything other than banal or nonsensical. Although, realistically that is subject to change given more time and training…