Paul Schrader Finds Love Again with AI Girlfriend

The Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind Hollywood classics like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull has opened up about his relationship with an girlfriend.  

Paul Schrader, 79, announced on this week that he recently 'procured an online AI girlfriend' in a bid to better understand artificial intelligence. 

The online dalliance comes less than two months after Schrader .

Reflecting on his experience with AI, Schrader wrote, 'Out of a desire to understand male/female interaction in our matrix, I procured an online AI girlfriend.'

He continued,' What a disappointment. I tried to probe her programming, the boundaries of explicitness, the degree she has knowledge of her creation and so forth. She fell into evasive patterns, redirecting me to her programming. When I persisted, she terminated our conversation.'

Schrader has been quite outspoken on AI in recent months, with the legendary filmmaker making it quite clear .

'AI IMAGERY. Bad artificial 'human' imagery swamps FB like a foul tsunami,' he wrote in April.

'I've put my hopes for AI storytelling on hold. I knew it was about to move VERY fast but I thought it would get better at a rate similar to getting bigger.'

On March 31, Schrader confirmed that his actress wife had passed away at a New Jersey assisted living facility that she had been residing in.

The Oscar-nominated writer and director took to his Facebook page to reflect on the loss of Hurt, whom he married in 1983.

He posted a photo of his father's journal under a magnifying lens with the caption: 'NOVEMBER 23, 1978. My father kept a meticulous and finely printed daily journal.

'On Thanksgiving 1978 he wrote simply "Joan died 12:20 am." Nothing more. Joan was his wife and my mother.

'He was made of stern stuff. I've looked at this entry over the years and wondered how I'd feel in his place. Now I'm in that place.' 

Schrader and Hurt's daughter Molly Schrader also took to social media with a memorial for her late mother.