Extending Digital Narrative “The Hedy Lamarr chatbot places you in 1951 at a café on Hollywood Boulevard. Across from you sits Austrian-American actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr, known to us today as the ‘Lady Bluetooth’ and ‘Mother of WiFi’.”
The project recreates an interactive conversation with Lamarr through a large language model. Users can ask about her film career, her invention of frequency-hopping spread spectrum, and her thoughts on science and innovation. The prompts simulate her personality, experiences and tone as they might have been in 1951, integrating her Austrian-Jewish roots, early acting career, Hollywood stardom and scientific work, and avoiding modern terminology or events beyond that timeline. Built on GPT-4o with a web interface, in English or German.
Part of an ongoing PhD project (2024–2027) investigating AI-driven historical reenactment through historical figures.
Exhibition
More Than Meets AI, Bergen