LOS ANGELES:  Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino has broken his silence on artificial intelligence while stopping short of commenting on the fate of his shelved film "Artificial", saying he is "right in the middle of this situation".

 

According to Variety, Amazon MGM dropped the film, which features "The Social Network" star Andrew Garfield as OpenAI chief Sam Altman, several months after striking a significant partnership with the artificial intelligence company.

 

The deal included a USD 50 billion investment from Amazon to expand OpenAI's use of Amazon Web Services and develop custom AI models. MUBI is among the distributors still in consideration to pick up the project, which has also been passed by Netflix, A24 and Focus Features.