riveting thriller takes fresh look at AI
I seriously doubt that it takes a fresh look at AI.
It might be a riveting thriller.
It’s not easy to say something new about artificial intelligence in the movies. It’s pretty much a toss-up between the they-could-be-people-too argument of sweet child robot David in A.I. or the sphincter-tightening terror of HAL and the Terminator. But with Ex Machina, we get a more complex picture of our android future …
every door has to be accessed with a keycard and half the facility is underground
Yep, I can see where this going, but hopefully I am wrong.
It’s rare to say something new about AI
Because in the end it is just another management system, hopefully quite a bit more refined and widely read than the drooling reflex bags wearing suits currently in charge. Vote for AI? I would.
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>An AI will not have much in common with a young lady's behavorial logic.
Obviously, one is a sometimes quasi-human being with occasional flashes of rationality which most scientists and mathematicians will never understand.
.....and the other is one of their valued colleagues
I've found that women are far more rational than most any male I've come across. A woman may react emotionally for a short period of time but once done, it's done. Then they dust themselve's off and get on with the pragmatic afterwards. It's the males that have they quaint notions of Duty, Loyalty, Honor, and all the other insanities they value over the practicalities of providing for the children.
[Should earn me a flurry of downvotes but still true.]
>Check a football/rugby/whatever match if you don't believe me.
>Or, if you are into that kind of thing, an OS flame war.
If you think that supporting a team or debating the merits of things is irrational then you might as well say all human behaviour is irrational. However they are somewhat different to the female type of irrationality where they'll just randomly decide something with no logical basis whatsoever - not even the "they scored more goals last month" level. However from my experience there does tend to be a major correlation of the level of their irrationality with the time of the month. Can't think why...
GiTS is all about the balance between artificial and natural conciousness. It's the main theme from both the film and the TV series, although it's more difficult to see in the original Manga.
There are AIs that aspire to be 'human' with the tachikomas and Project 2501, and AIs masquerading as humans as in Proto. And then you've got cyborgs who wonder whether they still count as human, Motoko and Bateau, with side stories of clones, ghost dubbing onto both clones and artificial bodies, and what being human actually means.
I've not seen this yet, but I seriously doubt that it really brings much more to the subject than what's in fiction already. It will likely be an aspirational story about wanting to be human and the trials it involves like Blade Runner, The Bicentennial Man, Demonseed or even in some respects, Disney's Little Mermaid. But I will look forward to seeing it when it hits Sky or the like.
An AI will not have much in common with a young lady's behavorial logic.
People seem to assume that this is some kind of criticism of womankind. This is not so, it is just a criticism to anthropomorphize the AI a bit much.
SAL 9000 just was a blue eye, for example. Won't pull in many viewers, mind.
I enjoyed it more than expected. It wasn't the AI that made me think, AI is all around us already - it is AC that is so much more challenging and unsettling. I think Alex Garland, as screen writer, did a good job rhetorically conveying the conundrums around Artificial Consciousness - we can't even define it, nor would we know how to prove it if it came along in a box (or a feminine robot). Garland did a pretty good job with the cinematography too.
Ignore the chitchat above about why choose a fembot (?) and go and see it for yourself. It was 95 minutes well spent, and it renewed my interest in that cognitive psychology module I did some years ago....
Another British movie with some similar ideas - saw this one Netflix a few weeks ago.
really gets my goat when I hear the voice-over at the end of the trailer saying "Ex Mack in a"
I hope I'm not missing the point of some exquisitely honed irony, but can you let us know how you think ex machina should be pronounced? "Ex Mack in a" may not be International Phonetic Alphabet, but it seems a reasonable approximation, unless you favour Edwardian Latin pronunciation.
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