# What is Dramatron, how does it generate a script, and what did 15 theatre and film professionals actually use it for?

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Dramatron (DeepMind, Sept 2022) chains prompts hierarchically from a writer-supplied log line to title, characters, plot (scene beats), location descriptions and per-scene dialogue, using Chinchilla 70B with few-shot prompts; the writer can regenerate, continue or edit at every level. In a 2-hour paid study with 15 playwrights/screenwriters, writers used it mainly for inspiration, character/world alternatives and rough material, not finished scripts; five co-written scripts were staged at the 2022 Edmonton Fringe.

Dramatron (DeepMind, Sept 2022) chains prompts hierarchically from a writer-supplied log line to title, characters, plot (scene beats), location descriptions and per-scene dialogue, using Chinchilla 70B with few-shot prompts; the writer can regenerate, continue or edit at every level. In a 2-hour paid study with 15 playwrights/screenwriters, writers used it mainly for inspiration, character/world alternatives and rough material, not finished scripts; five co-written scripts were staged at the 2022 Edmonton Fringe.

Curator qualifications: 'In this study, we employed the Chinchilla large language model (LLM) [48], represented as a neural network with 70B-parameters and that was trained on 1.4T tokens of the MassiveText dataset'; 'compensate experts for the co-writing and interview sessions at 100 GBP per hour'; 'Fringe' 5 hits.

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      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.14958v1",
      "note": "Dramatron arXiv 2209.14958v1 PDF"
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- [sourced_fact] Dramatron (DeepMind, Sept 2022) chains prompts hierarchically from a writer-supplied log line to title, characters, plot (scene beats), location descriptions and per-scene dialogue, using Chinchilla 70B with few-shot prompts; the writer can regenerate, continue or edit at every level. In a 2-hour paid study with 15 playwrights/screenwriters, writers used it mainly for inspiration, character/world alternatives and rough material, not finished scripts; five co-written scripts were staged at the 2022 Edmonton Fringe. · locator: Dramatron arXiv 2209.14958v1 PDF · source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.14958v1

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