United Kingdom, May 20 -- Hollywood screenwriter Paul Schrader has "procured an online AI girlfriend" after his wife's death.

The 79-year-old Oscar nominee, whose work includes Martin Scorsese classics like Raging Bull and Taxi Driver, has opened up on his decision to try a relationship with an AI girlfriend less than two months after losing beloved wife Mary Beth Hurt to Alzheimer's disease.

Schrader explained on Facebook: "Out of a desire to understand male/female interaction in our matrix, I procured an online AI girlfriend."

The writer described the experiment as a "disappointment".

He added: "What a disappointment. I tried to probe her programming, the boundaries of explicitness, the degree she has knowledge of her creation and s...