The premiere of “Sidorovy”, the first Russian sitcom scripted by artificial intelligence, was held on the VK Video platform. The neural network was developed by students of Skillbox who used the popular STS series as a basis. The project, which is participating in the Pilot Festival, will present the story of the Sidorovs, whose head discovers that he is a character in the TV series.
According to the plot the Sidorovs (Georgy Dronov, Alina Alekseeva, Tatiana Orlova, Sergei Styopin, Alexander Novikov) live like typical sitcom heroes: they argue, joke, solve household problems, make friends with a silly neighbour (Maxim Sushko). But at some point, the head of the family notices that all events are like Groundhog Day, and the voiceover laughter haunts them. Then he realises that the family is living in a sitcom and decides to get out of it.
The Sidorovs are played by actors who have previously appeared in “The Voronins”, “Daddy's Daughters” and other STS series. The role of the silly neighbour and jock played by Maxim Sushko. He was selected through a casting process conducted on the VK Clips platform. The script which was not edited after neuronet the actors saw only on the set.
“Neural network is still in its early stages of development and the difference was perceptible, – Georgi Dronov shared. – But what we have done, of course, a bold experiment.” “I didn't notice any oddities. The text was written in a clear and coherent manner, I understood absolutely everything,” Tatiana Orlova recalls.
The A.I. TV Script Generator neural network was developed by students of the Data Scientist profession at the Skillbox educational platform. To train the artificial intelligence, the developers uploaded popular STS TV series, including “Rodcom”, “The Voronins”, “Dyldy”, “The Eighties” and “The Oligarch’s Wife”. Thousands of pages of text allowed to set algorithms that closely resemble the processes involved in writing a film script. The neural network learnt to independently generate its basic structural elements: time and place of action, characters' names, lines, remarks and other components.