Blade Runner, autoencoded: The strange film that sums up our fears of AI and the future

Terence Broad's Blade Runner sometimes looks a lot like the classic 1982 film. Sometimes it looks completely different. His autoencoded version of Blade Runner is the film as a computer sees it – or, more specifically, as a computer sees it, remembers it, and then regurgitates it. The film is being shown as part of the Barbican's science fiction exhibition-meets-festival, Into The Unknown. And it's perhaps the most cutting edge of all the work featured there – not only being about science fiction, but being created in a way that sounds like it comes straight out of the work of Philip K Dick.