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I while watching Ex Machina, I was caught up in the story and characters. Immediately afterwards, I realized how ridiculously contrived a few parts were. (Spoi
by ggreer 11y ago
I while watching Ex Machina, I was caught up in the story and characters. Immediately afterwards, I realized how ridiculously contrived a few parts were.
(Spoilers follow.)
The most glaring oversight was the lack of an emergency shutdown for Ava. The story should have ended with Nathan pulling out a remote, pressing a button, and Ava collapsing. The prospect of a robot going berserk was known to him. Heck, it'd already happened before. One scene shows footage of a prototype smashing itself to bits on the wall. The movie expects us to believe that after that incident, Nathan thought, "No need to add failsafes. Just let these AIs destroy my carefully-crafted robot bodies on this glass partition." I don't buy it.
- alphakappa 11y ago(Spoilers too) The thing that stood out for me was Ava leaving the compound without any explanation for how she would inductively charge herself afterwards.
- ggreer 11y agoI assumed the induction panels were repurposed commodity gear. Typical use would be to charge phones, tablets, laptops, roombas, etc… and Ava could top-up at an airport or coffee shop. That conclusion makes more sense than Nathan inventing his own wireless charging standard.
- Udik 11y agoHowever, I'm not sure Ex-Machina is trying or pretending to be scientifically accurate. Perhaps it's just a fable in modern clothes, rehearsing an archetypical myth (the Golem) as well as providing an intuitive grasp on the ethical problems posed by strong artificial intelligence and on the "Ai in the box" mental experiment. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_box https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_box ).