Time & Location
16 Dec 2024, 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Brisbane City, 2 George St, Brisbane City QLD 4000, Australia
About the event
The end-of-year meeting for our book and movie club will be held on Saturday, December 16th, at Z808, QUT Gardens Point Campus.
This session will feature an AI Film Festival, where we’ll watch a selection of short films that demonstrate the evolving use of artificial intelligence in filmmaking—from early experiments in scriptwriting to more advanced applications in visuals and production. The screening will be followed by discussions over drinks and nibbles (BYO or bring a plate to share).
Agenda
We’ll be screening four short films that reflect the progression of AI technology in creative storytelling:
Sunspring (2016)
A sci-fi short written entirely by an AI named "Benjamin," marking one of the earliest attempts to use AI in scriptwriting. Benjamin was built using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural networks, which mimic patterns in text to generate new content. This experiment shows AI's initial focus on text-based contributions, relying heavily on human…