Did you know that David Hasselhoff's CV goes far beyond his duties as the renowned Baywatch star and a judge on America's Got Talent? Hasselhoff has demonstrated repeatedly throughout the course of a career spanning more than five decades that he is a gifted performer with a wide range of skills. He has a successful track record, to begin with. He became well-known in the 1980s thanks to his portrayal of Michael Knight on Knight Rider, and his popularity grew in the 1990s thanks to his work on Baywatch. Hasselhoff has achieved success as a musician in addition to his acting career, with singles including "Looking for Freedom" and "Hooked on a Feeling."

First it was age-old board games and boring office jobs, but now it seems robots are gearing up to take over Hollywood. Following up the stunning success of its debut short movie from last year, Sunspring, the script-writing artificial intelligence Benjamin is back with yet another sci-fi flick. Directed by Oscar Sharp and starring Baywatch icon David Hasselhoff, It's No Game takes us to an alternate reality where, in midst of heated writer's strike in Hollywood, AI script writers have gradually began to replace human ones. Using an advanced nanobot technology, producers have found a way to channel the inner thoughts and mannerism of the AI writers directly to human actors, causing them to act out borderline non-sensical lines put together by various algorithms trained on Shakespeare, Aaron Sorkin and Golden Age Hollywood movies. Accompanying Hasselhoff in It's No Game's cast are Flesh and Bone's Sarah Hay, The Walking Dead's Thomas Payne as well as Tom Guinee.

First it was age-old board games and boring office jobs, but now it seems robots are gearing up to take over Hollywood. Following up the stunning success of its debut short movie from last year, Sunspring, the script-writing artificial intelligence Benjamin is back with yet another sci-fi flick. Directed by Oscar Sharp and starring Baywatch icon David Hasselhoff, It's No Game takes us to an alternate reality where, in midst of heated writer's strike in Hollywood, AI script writers have gradually began to replace human ones. Using an advanced nanobot technology, producers have found a way to channel the inner thoughts and mannerism of the AI writers directly to human actors, causing them to act out borderline non-sensical lines put together by various algorithms trained on Shakespeare, Aaron Sorkin and Golden Age Hollywood movies. Accompanying Hasselhoff in It's No Game's cast are Flesh and Bone's Sarah Hay, The Walking Dead's Thomas Payne as well as Tom Guinee.

Annalee Newitz is the Tech Culture Editor at Ars Technica. Her work focuses on cultural impact of science and technology. She founded the science and science fiction blog io9.com, and is the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction. Her first novel, Autonomous, comes out in September 2017. She has a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley, and was the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT.

Last year, director Oscar Sharp and AI researcher Ross Goodwin released the stunningly weird short film Sunspring. It was a sci-fi tale written entirely by an algorithm that eventually named itself Benjamin. Now the two humans have teamed up with Benjamin again to create a follow-up movie, It's No Game, about what happens when AI gets mixed up in an impending Hollywood writers' strike. Ars is excited to debut the movie here, so go ahead and watch. We also talked to the film cast and creators about what it's like to work with an AI.

If you were a fan of Knight Rider and dreamed of a car that could talk, drive itself and save you from peril, hold tight: it's coming. It does not exactly resemble Kitt, the Pontiac Firebird with a silky voice, and David Hasselhoff is not behind the wheel, but the spirit of the 1980s TV series pervades this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Car makers have taken over much of the world's biggest gadget expo to offer sneak previews of vehicles connected to smartphones and mobile computing technologies. Google and chip-maker Nvidia announced an alliance with GM, Honda, Audi, Hyundai to install cutting-edge Android technology into cars, a response to Apple's vigorous promotion of its own iOS car technology. "We're getting to the point where the car is an extension of you and really looks out for you," said Thilo Koslowski, an automotive analyst at Gartner.