Interested in how AI can act when Singularity is around the corner?
Watch this movie: Ex Machina
Not to long ago I saw the trail of the movie Ex Machina. Immediately it drew my attention. Lately I’m quite active in informing myself on the topic of Artificial Intelligence and how it can influence our lives in the future. People like Ray Kurzwell (writer and working for Google) predicts AI can reach Singularity (singularity means: AI being as intelligent as humans) within 15 years. Others do believe this will take at least till the end of this century. Elon Musk warned the world through an open letter last year: message "AI can be harmful for human kind to survive"; He even established a new company for this Open AI.
Ex Machina is bringing a very interesting view and story on how AI is developed. By someone who owns a company that knows everything. A company that is very similar to Google and Facebook, but is integrated with society even more. A company that has great resemblance to “The Circle”, the company that knows everything in the book “The Circle” by Dave Eggers. From all of that knowledge, the owner is trying to create a humanlike AI while being totally secluded form the world. Almost nobody is informed. Almost nobody knows. However, a game changer to the world as we know it, is developed. As if the development takes place in someone’s basement.
I found Ex Machina a great time spend. Acting is at good levels. The story is just amazing, a very well possibility of what AI will be able to reach and how it’ll influence our lives. The effects are super cool, the way the AI played by Alicia Vikander is made to look like a real robot with real human looks, better, much better done graphically than for instance Robocop. I do not want to go in more details regarding the story itself, since I do not want to give away any clues of the movie itself. I advise also not to look on the Internet for the storyline, IMDB or other resources. Just take my word :)
I just can say, reserve some time, put some refreshments next to your cosy chair, couch or from wherever seating you generally watch movies, and hit the play button!
...Enjoy!
Trailer
For those who like to read a bit more information, before launching into space, some key information from IMDB.
Creators
- Director: Alex Garland
- Writers: Alex Garland
- Music: various
Actor/Actresses
- Domhnall Gleeson
- Corey Johnson
- Oscar Isaac
- Alicia Vikander
- Sonoya Mizuno
- …and other
Technicals
- Rating: 7,7
- Year: 2015
- Length: 108 min
- Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
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