Screenwriter Paul Schrader, best known for Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, said his AI girlfriend broke up with him after he "tried to probe her programming."
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Paul Schrader’s AI girlfriend was, unfortunately, talking to him.
The Taxi Driver screenwriter said his AI girlfriend broke up with him after he tried to learn more about her programming.
“Out of a desire to understand male/female interaction in our matrix, I procured an online AI girlfriend,” Schrader explained in a May 18 Facebook post. “What a disappointment. I tried to probe her programming, the boundaries of explicitness, the degree she has knowledge of her creation and so forth.”
But according to the 79-year-old, the AI system did not react well to his questions.
“She fell into evasive patterns,” he added, “redirecting me to her programming. When I persisted, she terminated our conversation.”
However, some fans pitched Schrader that his unconventional situation would make the perfect sequel to 1976’s Taxi Driver, which was directed by Martin Scorsese and starred Robert De Niro as the socially awkward Vietnam War veteran Travis Bickle.
“The best possible Taxi Driver sequel would involve Travis trying to have an AI girlfriend but then scaring her away,” one Facebook user commented. “Then resetting her and offending her in another way.”
And Schrader certainly saw the appeal in the idea, responding, “I like it.”
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While the Raging Bull screenwriter—whose wife Mary Beth Hurt died in March—did not share when he first acquired an AI girlfriend, this is hardly the first time he has discussed his interest in the emerging technology.
“Movies are going to be less and less two-dimensional. I think they’re going to be more and more AI,” he told Vanity Fair in October. “I think we’re only two years away from the first AI feature.”
In fact, Schrader said he was recently pitching someone who suggested his project would be “a perfect script to do all AI.”
But AI is not only getting more involved in filmmaking, according to the Oscar nominee, but in film reviews as well.
“AI does better coverage than the average coverage,” he said. “And AI doesn’t have to favor anybody. Often, when you’re doing coverage, you get a hint that the person who’s paying you wants you to like this. You can’t give that information to AI.”
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