Artificial Intelligence In 'I, Robot And Ex Machina'

Ex Machina is a film about a scientist named Nathan who has selected an employee of his, Caleb Smith, to be flown out to his estate for a week. When Caleb arrives Nathan tells him that he has been selected to be part of a Turing test. A Turing Test is when you have a human and a computer interact with each other and if the human doesn’t know that they are interacting with a computer, then the test is passed. But Nathan has already completed that part of the test so now he wants Caleb to actually see her and have a one on one conversation with her see if Caleb still feels that the robot has consciousness. So, it turns out that Nathan has created a humanoid robot with artificial intelligence and her name is Ava. Ava appears with a robotic body but

Using ethos, pathos, logos, and other rhetorical techniques in non-fiction and science fiction, help the author carry different and similar claims regarding artificial intelligence making the author’s message change between the two genres. In Robopocalypse, a science fiction novel written by Daniel H. Wilson, the protagonist Cormac Wallace narrates the story with first and secondhand testimonies, information accumulated from interviews, and camera footage. At the opening of the book, Cormac gathers the stories from a black box of the robot uprising, beginning the story of how ordinary technology turned into an automated war. The sci-fi novel informs the audience that artificial intelligence can effortlessly turn against their human creator to deliberately achieve the annihilation of the human race implicating “technology changes, but people stay the same” (Wilson 261).

Ex Machina goes above and beyond when it comes to science fiction and philosophy, if anything the movie leaves us with more question than answers. In the movie we are introduced to Caleb, a person we think has won the lottery only to find out he was chosen to be a participant for a Turing Test against AI, Ava, to see if she can pass as human. We are also introduced to Nathan who is the AI’s father of some sorts, he is wild, crazy genius that throughout the movie we are never sure if he is trustable or not. Nathan represents humanity at its darkest state; he is a self-destructive drunk who seeks his own demise. When he talks about the future and how the robots he created will take over the world, he talks about with awe like he can’t wait for

The thesis of the book is science fiction films are modern folklore that forebode society’s gradual machination (1993b; 3). Humanity is mutilated or sacrificed outright, according to Schelde, with excess machines and robots present in our everyday

When you think of new technologies such as robots, or peculiar man-made beings like monsters, what feeling comes to mind? Fear? Excitement? Uncertainty? In ‘The Rebellious Robot’ the mood is happy and exciting, very different from ‘Frankenstein’ where the mood and overall feeling is dark, gloomy, and suspenseful.

Alex Garland, the director of the film Ex Machina, showed a different method of the Turing Test, a test in which a human subject talks to an AI and a human without knowing which is which. If the subject cannot distinguish between the AI and the human, then the AI would pass the test as conscious. Instead in the film, the tester gets to see the AI and talk to her through her a glass window. Other than the technology, Ex Machina also shows some societal views of gender roles. The views being in which males are typically seen as the violent ones in relationship and woman as the weak.

‘Blade Runner’ is a 1982 film adaptation of the book ‘Do Androids Dream of electric sheep?’ By Philip K Dick, produced by Ridley Scott and Michael Deeley. Throughout the film, the idea of ‘More human than human’ is portrayed and analysed, with clear intent to question the viewer’s opinions and beliefs about the effect of technology and human nature. This film questions the viewer’s ideas about reality, humanity and equality in society, and whether the ‘replicants’ or the humans show more humanity. What makes us human? What

However, the genre of this film is science fiction dealing with artificial intelligence, and it contains romance relationship between human and robot at the same time. Thus, the plot gets entangled. The end of the movie can shock audiences when they just expect the typical happy end. – Ex Machina is a science fiction film like “I, Robot” and “Transformer”. At the beginning of the story, robots start with the unknown and mysterious existence.

In a postmodern Los Angeles, main character Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, is left with an ethical conundrum. Deckard must decide whether he should follow orders and retire the replicants that he has been tasked with killing. This sci-fi/suspense film brings many questions to the viewers mind about artificial intelligence in this society. This parable-like film addresses a multitude of topics such as what separates humans from androids and the different “tragic situations” found in this postmodern, nihilistic, dystopia (Martin, 106-107). In the Blade Runner: The Final Cut directed by Ridley Scott, Scott utilizes sound, setting, & characterization to convey the morals of artificial intelligence and what differentiates them from humans.

There’s a famous film, a recent one, called Ex Machina. In it, a man meets an AI robot that looks suspiciously real and starts to form a relationship with him. The idea is that AI truly works if we cannot tell the difference. Want to know the slightly scary news? Most of us have been fooled by a piece of AI that is present in our social media feeds.

Terminator and Bladerunner, portrayed cyborgs or cybernetic organisms as creatures of destruction. Are they really as horrible as the movies make them out to be? They can be more useful than perceived; it is necessary to first perfect the technology involved in creating and operating them. In this paper, I will describe how these cyborgs work and how they are portrayed in the movies. Furthermore, I will explain the helpful ways that they are expected to perform in the future.

Movie, Ex Machina, is about a young programmer who is selected to participate in doing Turing Test of a humanoid Artificial Intelligence. The artificial intelligence, Ava, is built by Nathan, CEO of a huge search engine company where the young programmer, Caleb, works. It is later revealed that Nathan didn’t select Caleb based on his coding ability, rather, he was deemed fit for the test based on his online activities. The whole automation information for Ava was fed using all the raw data either private or public collected from the search engine.

The movie “Ex Machina” directed by Alex Garland portrayed what true artificial intelligence would be like and how that would affect the human race. Garland’s work with Ex Machina painted a picture on what true Artificial Intelligence would be like, a self aware, thinking, manipulative robot that have traits highly resembling human traits and character that highly resembles human character. Garland uses color in very subtle ways to add to the complexity of his masterpiece making his movie have deeper meaning. In the movie Garland uses color, in order to convey the traditional expressions of each character and the plot as a whole.

About nine years ago I discovered a book called The Age of Spiritual Machines by a man named Ray Kurzweil that demanded my immediate interest. I was captivated by his view of the future of technology - astoundingly positive and bright compared to most peoples’ negative or dystopian outlook when it comes to the dangers of a society increasingly reliant on machines and technology. I recently had the privilege of watching Spike Jonze’s 2013 movie her. While focusing on the personal aspect of a man falling in love with an artificial intelligence in a near-future Los Angeles, I couldn’t help but be surprised and delighted when Ray Kurzweil’s theories and mindset came shining through the backdrop. This is a smart, moving love story at first

As a computer science major, it is only natural that I would have an affinity to science fiction films. However, Alex Garland’s Ex Machina is not just any science fiction film, it is a view into the human psyche and society’s subconscious fear of being replaced by something we perceive to be greater than ourselves. Ex Machina is a morally ambiguous story that is Promethean in nature, because “fire” or intelligence has been given to machines. Many of the characters in Ex Machina exhibit Jungian archetypes such as Ava being the dreamer, Caleb Smith as a positive animus, Nathan Bateman as a negative animus, and Kyoko as a positive shadow. However, some may have different perspectives on who would