Student uses Blade Runner to teach computer how to replicate movies

A computer's artificial intelligence system has been taught to understand Blade Runner well enough for a Goldsmiths, University of London student to remake the entire film based on the AI system's interpretation. Terence Broad has gone on to remake other films based on the AI's understanding of Blade Runner. Over the last couple of years, scientists working in the machine-learning world have developed artificial neural networks (inspired by animals' brains) that can learn to generate new images based on information they learn from real images. The generated images have become so natural that computers and the human eye can't tell real and artificial apart. But most models create images that are variations of a similar thing – such as a face or picture of a bedroom – taken from the same angle.