Ambiturner
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Wow, that was a great movie. Alex Garland's directorial debut, and he hit a home run.
He really kept it tense the whole way through.
If I had to question anything..
I would recommend this movie to anybody who is interested in more artistic story telling. If you are anything like Astrocreep stay far away tho.
He really kept it tense the whole way through.
If I had to question anything..
Why didn't Nathan have a fail safe in case one of his A.I's try to do harm to him. You could see in one of the previous videos one was very violent.
Unless he wanted this to happen. He talks earlier about emerging A.I. ,and how it a conclusion that they will evolve past us. Maybe he set up the rat experiment to allow the A.I. to pass this one last test to see if it was worthy, and be released in the wild with no one knowing of it's existence. The person or event which provides a sudden, unexpected solution to a story.
Unless he wanted this to happen. He talks earlier about emerging A.I. ,and how it a conclusion that they will evolve past us. Maybe he set up the rat experiment to allow the A.I. to pass this one last test to see if it was worthy, and be released in the wild with no one knowing of it's existence. The person or event which provides a sudden, unexpected solution to a story.
I would recommend this movie to anybody who is interested in more artistic story telling. If you are anything like Astrocreep stay far away tho.
Well the guy in the helicopter was only assigned a pick up. They set up earlier that he couldn't get close to the compound, or knew anything about it.
So why would he ask questions
So why would he ask questions
That was a beautiful scene in the movie. Why wouldn't a guy that smart question his own existence. I'm glad they tricked the audience to thinking that was the twist. Good shit.
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spronk
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bluray rips are out. decent movie, don't think it deserves the 91% RT rating its gotten though. Its more an artistic movie than a deep exploration of how AI might be created. Some really nice tits in the movie. Pretty slow paced movie so I'd definitely recommend seeing it at home vs in theater.
I don't like the anthropomorphizing of AIs wanting things humans want (body, touching, seeing nature, etc) so that was a disappointment to me and the entire setup of the movie is really clumsy but the middle stuff is all good.
Both the main male leads are going to be in the new star wars movie too.
I don't like the anthropomorphizing of AIs wanting things humans want (body, touching, seeing nature, etc) so that was a disappointment to me and the entire setup of the movie is really clumsy but the middle stuff is all good.
Both the main male leads are going to be in the new star wars movie too.
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I liked it. Some good, some bad, but the behavior of the characters seemed plausible.
I have no issue with the AI wanting to go out and see people and nature, and I was really happy that the robot wasn't romantic or evil. It didn't even seem to have a moral nature. That's more interesting/unpredictable/dangerous than many AI come across.
This movie was fucken brilliant.
What do you think an A.I is going to do when created by a human? Of course the first versions of A.I will replicate a lot of human tendencies it's our only reference point a long with the fact we have an ego..
I was a great movie visually and sound wise. Directing was great. Writing was great. Acting was great. Story was kinda average.
I feel like many people misunderstand this about RT. It rates the percent of positive reviews only, not the strength of those reviews. 91% three star reviews shows the same as 91% five star reviews. If you click through RT and read the reviews you'll see lots of reviewers thought it was decent, not great, but very few thought it was bad.
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ah that makes more sense then yeah the 78% on metacritic makes more sense, thats pretty much the rating I'd give it too
For anyone interested in AI, on another forum someone linked this article. I haven't read it all yet (its really long!) but its really interesting
The AI Revolution: Road to Superintelligence - Wait But Why
For anyone interested in AI, on another forum someone linked this article. I haven't read it all yet (its really long!) but its really interesting
The AI Revolution: Road to Superintelligence - Wait But Why
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I don't understand this, not saying you are wrong or anything, I just don't understand. Why wouldn't an AI, specifically one created in this movie, want what humans have? It isn't presented that she really has any access to data other than what she is given and was programmed with, everything has to be gleaned from experience.
She is curious and was made in the image of man and is self aware of her differences. Nathan wasn't creating Skynet, he was trying to replicate human consciousness. I can see not wanting to see some AI to want so badly to be human, look human, act human, etc, but this AI was specially made to fool humans into believing she was one.
I don't know how much we need tags since this has been out a while now but,
She even expresses her humanity (or at least the reflection of her creator being a huge asshole) in the final scenes in her betrayal of Caleb.
Edit: Saw this on reddit too, I remember seeing the code on the screen and wondering why it was there since it never seemed to come up again:
Secret code in Ex Machina : movies
spronk
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Yeah I don't have a huge problem with what happened in the movie and its totally fine the way it happened. its just that pretty much every AI movie of the last few years has gone down the same road - Automata, Chappie, Transcendence, The Machine, etc. I actually think Her has done it best, where the AIs want to emulate humanity initially but quickly go so far beyond us as to be impossible to understand.
I guess thats the movie I want, what happens when the AI evolves past us and then starts setting its own goals beyond being a better human. Sadly all the movies end at the point where I want a movie to start. I guess in a few years we'll start seeing the sequels.
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The worst part of this movie was when nathan said that AI (the type that he created, strong AI) was always inventible. After that point i kind of stopped taking the movie seriously and just waited for robot sex.
Also the butchering of the "Turing Test" sucked dick but they did that right away so whatever.
Also the butchering of the "Turing Test" sucked dick but they did that right away so whatever.
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From that Reddit thread, because the whole time I was wondering where was this stunning setting they filmed at:The Hotel - Juvet
Norway!
Norway!
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Awesome movie and I think the story was relatable, so I give it a pass as the weak link in the movie. I have seen other material from all the parties involved in this movie and always enjoyed their movies, and this one was no exception. If you want an action based short attention span popcorn movie, then skip this. If you enjoyed a movie that made you think with slow immersion into the material, then this is an excellent choice. Too bad its up against Ultron and Mad Max.