Andreessen: GPT-4 can write screenplays using the Save the Cat framework
Marc Andreessen · What is the Future of Hollywood? · Oct 1, 2023 · at 53:17
Marc Andreessen, co-founder of a16z, discusses current AI model capabilities in automating screenplay generation using structured narrative beat sheets.
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“One of the things you can do with like GPT-IV, you know, with like ChatGPT or with whatever, you know, Bing, Bing Chat or whatever you can actually use it will write you screenplays today, and what you can do, you can just tell it, write me a screenplay about, you know, the Vietnam War, and it will do that, and it will, you know, it'll, it'll start by just giving you like a generic, you know, probably Vietnam War story. In a generic screenplay format, but you can also specifically say, write me a screenplay in the, using the format of save the cat. Of course, it knows what save the cat is, and it knows what the framework and structure are. And so it will literally write you a properly constructed narrative, 15 point, you know, save the cat narrative on whatever topic you want.”
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