Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) Network To Write Comedy Screenplays

What Happens When a Computer Program Is Taught to Write New Episodes of Friends

Artificial intelligence network attempts to recreate scene from comedy show after being fed every single script

James Titcomb | January 20, 2016

[...] An artificial intelligence program, when fed with scripts from the entire Friends back catalogue, has produced hilarious, if not entirely up to scratch, new scenes for the show.
The network re-creates the back-and-forth conversations between the show's six lead members, including faithfully adding character traits such as Chandler beginning sentences with "so," and Joey's "seriously", although they probably wouldn't be accepted by the show's producers. [...]

Not yet perfect ... A sample of a possible Friends script generated using artificial intelligence and previous episodes. Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/76082564/Comic-artist-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-generate-Friends-script-for-new-scenes

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