Artificial is a wicked satire that also sticks to the facts
At the New York Film Festival premiere of Artificial, Luca Guadagnino's satirical Sam Altman biopic, the director said onstage that "[when] someone wants to play God, that's very interesting to me." The idea of playing God, and power in general - who has it, who desperately wants it, and who will do

At the New York Film Festival premiere of Artificial, Luca Guadagnino's satirical Sam Altman biopic, the director said onstage that "[when] someone wants to play God, that's very interesting to me." The idea of playing God, and power in general - who has it, who desperately wants it, and who will do anything to get it - is central to the film's narrative, which sticks remarkably close to the factual events surrounding the OpenAI CEO's rise to power with, and brief ouster from, the AI lab. The film opens with a stunning shot of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, which will turn into a metaphor for building all-powerful AI systems over the … Read the full story at The Verge.
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- •At the New York Film Festival premiere of Artificial, Luca Guadagnino's satirical Sam Altman biopic, the director said onstage that "[when] someone wants to play God, that's very interesting to me." The idea of playing God, and power in general - who has it, who desperately wants it, and who will do
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