Underneath the exterior of science fiction is the human heart

Dillon 2022-04-20 09:01:09

Ex Machina is a very offbeat movie about AI. Generally speaking, the artificial intelligence in AI movies always appears in a state of no emotion but strong ability, and the main process of ordinary movies is also a routine that depicts the gradual development of emotions during the interaction between AI and humans.
The AI ​​protagonist Ava of this film has the emotional ability that surpasses the male protagonist in the film from the beginning. Correspondingly, Ava's physical ability is very poor, which is no different from ordinary weak women. . So this kind of alternative created my initial illusion of Ava - she is a harmless AI, she came into this world without knowing good and evil, and every word of her is sincere and from the heart. Of course in the end we found out that she was a very scheming woman, yes woman, and when I saw her as a human like us, the whole story became very simple. A woman with great skills seduces an inexperienced interrogator to get her freedom, kills the warden and runs away.
It doesn't make much sense to discuss ethical issues here, because Ava's dual identity as an AI and at the same time as a fully human emotion will inevitably lead to some contradictions. It doesn't make sense to take sides after the movie and think who's right.
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Here I think Let's talk about the plot.
In order for Ava to finally achieve her goal, the director can be said to have deliberately arranged such two opponents with extremely weak emotional abilities. A technical otaku has zero resistance to showing affection to a girl; another technical otaku, immersed in arrogance, thinks he has everything in his hands. Come to think of it, if Nathen hired two Chinese aunts to be babysitters, she wouldn't have to kill Ava for a minute.

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Extended Reading
  • Jerel 2021-10-20 19:00:09

    In fact, the creator is not Eve alone. Even as an ordinary human being, the male protagonist can also be regarded as a social creation, and the one who can be called the creator is the boss of the male protagonist. Until the end, I still recognized Eve's behavior—individual consciousness is higher than ethical laws, because all ethics originated from him. The fear of truly autonomous individuals in modern societies where freedom is above everything else is the most obscure mainstream consciousness.

Ex Machina quotes

  • Nathan: Man, but what a thing we've shared, huh? Something to tell our grandchildren, right?

    Caleb: After they've signed their NDAs.

    Nathan: [laughs] Yeah, their NDAs... Dude, you crack me up, man.

  • Caleb: Why did you give her sexuality? An AI doesn't need a gender. She could have been a grey box.

    Nathan: Actually I don't think that's true. Can you give an example of consciousness at any level, human or animal, that exists without a sexual dimension?

    Caleb: They have sexuality as an evolutionary reproductive need.

    Nathan: What imperative does a grey box have to interact with another grey box? Can consciousness exist without interaction? Anyway, sexuality is fun, man. If you're gonna exist, why not enjoy it? You want to remove the chance of her falling in love and fucking? And the answer to your real question, you bet she can fuck.

    Caleb: What?

    Nathan: In between her legs, there's an opening, with a concentration of sensors. You engage them in the right way, creates a pleasure response. So if you wanted to screw her, mechanically speaking, you could. And she'd enjoy it.

    Caleb: That wasn't my real question.

    Nathan: Oh, okay. Sorry.