Korean maestro Lee Chang-dong has said his award-winning film "Possible Love" came as part of efforts to understand and speak about humans in an age where the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) is growing, Netflix said Wednesday. Lee made the remarks as he received the TIFF Ebert Director Award, a lifetime achievement honor presented at the Toronto International Film Festival, in a ceremony held in the Canadian city on Sunday (Canadian time), according to the streaming platform, the distributor of the film. Lee is the first Korean filmmaker to win the award. Korean actor Sul Kyung-gu, who appeared in three of Lee's films — "Peppermint Candy" (2000), "Oasis" (2002) and "Possible Love" — presented the award to the director. "I thought film was a medium which is most helpful in understanding humans and have made films because of this reason," he was quoted as saying. "But as I continued to make films, I also came to realize how difficult it is to understand humans." "In an era where AI, which does not have an ego, gradually replaces humans and where humans appear to be losing the