Films/DVD Asylum

Ex Machina. Finally got around to watching it.

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free.ranger

A

To sum; nobody is as smart as they think they are. Or subtitled; how to play the players.
A smartly done sic-fi about the definition of intelligence, and what makes us special. It's a slippery slope worth pondering, but don't expect any hard and fast finality on the issue. It ain't there.

Many heady interactions between the AI creator and his chosen objective tester, who in the end shows trhat the line between objectivity and subjectivity is just as hard to find.

A good flick worth your time. It ends with twists that aren't telegraphed throughout the movie. You actually have to watch all of it.

Follow Ups:

Women: what do they want? -- S. Freud * - Billy Wonka 09:33:38 10/11/15 (11)
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- What do robots want? - free.ranger 12:51:01 10/11/15 (8)
  Yes. I'd do her/it. What's intelligence got to with it? Subjective all the way, baby.
  - Cross your legs and wait - Victor Khomenko 13:24:40 10/11/15 (7)
    Scientists predict that in 50 years more men will have sex with robots than with women.
    
    No word on what women are going to do.
    - I'd guess... - mkuller 15:25:38 10/12/15 (3)
      ...it will be much sooner than that.
      Robots (Open in New Window)
      - My silicone rubber stock shares have skyrocketed this year! - genungo 21:10:56 10/17/15 (2)
        
        In Reply to: RE: I'd guess... posted by mkuller on October 12, 2015 at 15:25:38
        
        One word to remember: "Viscoelastics".
        
        RE: My silicone rubber stock shares have skyrocketed this year! - mkuller 21:56:51 10/17/15 (1)
        
        In Reply to: RE: My silicone rubber stock shares have skyrocketed this year! posted by genungo on October 17, 2015 at 21:10:56
        
        ...just like in the Graduate.
        
        RE: My silicone rubber stock shares have skyrocketed this year! - genungo 08:16:15 10/13/15 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: My silicone rubber stock shares have skyrocketed this year! posted by mkuller on October 17, 2015 at 21:56:51
        
        Strange how futuristic some of those old movies were...
    - That relates to a line one of the characters said. - free.ranger 14:50:03 10/11/15 (2)
      The AI sex-bomb creator said that in an eon or so, after we have extinquished, AI will look at what humans were, like we look now at fossils in the desert.
      
      Which leads to a topical book on the subject, "The Information" by James Gleick, in which he posits that it is not the organism that evolves; it is the information contained within them. We are all just carriers/tools for what actually continues, grows and develops through time -- which is information itself.
      
      If its inevitable, why wait? If robots look like her and simulate bio functions, then my application is in the mail.
      - What's sex without "But you promised!" next morning? - Victor Khomenko 15:06:58 10/11/15 (1)
        
        In Reply to: RE: That relates to a line one of the characters said. posted by free.ranger on October 11, 2015 at 14:50:03
        
        No robot can be programmed to say it with all the proper emotions.
        
        LOL. Hopefully not. nt - free.ranger 15:37:38 10/11/15 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: What's sex without "But you promised!" next morning? posted by Victor Khomenko on October 11, 2015 at 15:06:58
- RE: Women: what do they want? - genungo 10:57:22 10/11/15 (0)
  They only want your undivided attention and rapt admiration. And, yes - if they have to screw you over from time to time in order to get those things, so be it.
  
  It's all in the name of Love.
- Whatever it is... - mkuller 10:44:24 10/11/15 (0)
  ...they'll screw you over to get it.

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