The upcoming movie Ex Machina has two questions you will probably have heard before: "Will artificial intelligence destroy humanity?" and "What makes us human?"
The questions are not new, but the Ex Machina movie, which is currently being screened at selected US theaters, will probably give us more trouble.
The film presents a tech billionaire who, after the creation of a monopoly search firm called Bluebook is attempting to develop true AI (artificial intelligence). This AI has a name: Ava.
A young programmer working for the world's largest Internet company wins a competition to spend a week at a private retreat owned by the company's lonely CEO. Upon his arrival he learns that he must participate in a strange experiment that involves interacting with the world's first true artificial intelligence, which comes in the form of a beautiful woman robot, Ava.
A classic Turing test, therefore, which the film defines for the viewer to understand: "When a person interacts with a computer, and does not know that it is interacting with a computer, then the test is considered successful.”
The premise is quite realistic. A billionaire archetype of out-of-touch, self-confident, and extremely tech-genius – an Elon Musk, or a Peter Thiel, or a Larry Page. The company, of course, is Google.
The result will probably leave us quite suspicious of artificial intelligence. The movie Ex Machina, seems to present the indifference of humanity, and most importantly, it will let us question your own sense of humankind.
Information from iMDB
Released: April 10, 2015 (USA)
Director: Alex Garland
Starring: Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander (Ava), Oscar Isaac
See the clip below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYGzRB4Pnq8
