Jodie Foster was discussing great movies and how Hollywood has changed in a talk this week, and she brought up Apple’s “F1” as an example of how machines may be altering creativity. During a Tuesday talk called “Who Owns the Future of Hollywood” with former Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton at the Aspen Festival of Ideas, Foster proposed smilingly that the Brad Pitt racing movie seemed like it could have been made by AI.
“I don’t say this disparagingly — how could I? This movie went on to make millions of dollars. But I look at a movie like ‘F1’ and I’m like, ‘F1’ was made by AI,” she said with a laugh at the Colorado event. “Wasn’t it? I mean, the structure was exactly the structure that you would learn in school. The actors say the lines exactly the way it would be written if a computer was writing exactly what would be the right thing for that time. And they were able to dominate the technology to make something big and beautiful and potentially where a lot of the information comes from other places.”
“F1” has grossed $634 million worldwide and was nominated for four Oscars including best picture, winning for best sound.
Several panels at the annual festival discussed the advent of AI and its effect on society, and Lynton asked Foster what she thought the effects of the technology would be.
