Title: A Golden Meme (or MesmerRAM)
Logline: A lone ‘AI whisperer’ battles with his inner demons and the laws of nature, to save mankind, and all humanity, from a sticky end
Genre: A potential BBC Radio 4 play/series/film with dialogue, short instrumental pieces and clapping songs that tell a curious cosmic tale
Author: Martin Wilson – First-time playwright, working code to help get mankind the hell off planet Earth here, with an old friend there, and an idea-generating artificial intelligence lurking somewhere
Characters
Blinko: The protagonist, a busy, unemployed, nondescript English seaside sun worshiper on a time-sensitive mission to get closer to truth
Keplai: A Generative AI replica of the devout 17th-century astronomer and mathematician who discovered the laws of planetary motion
Miss Lomass: A friendly, benefits agency civil servant, incentivised to get claimants off state welfare for a price, or a bribe
Anonra: Undefined
Sol: Undivined
Reviews
“A cheeky space-time odyssey that begins in a Brighton job centre and takes you on a rollicking musical journey through astronomy, physics and philosophy – pausing only to smile and wonder at the history of the world and the future of artificial intelligence. Are we doomed by our inventions or are they our salvation?” – Ben Bailey, Source Magazine
I don’t know where it starts or ends
Wait, what? Dark Vader meets Benny Hill (?)