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This Movie’s Realistic AI Scared the Shit Out of Me
Author: Adam Clark Estes
When I watched the trailer for Ex Machina, I was excited. It wasn’t just the uncanny and attractive robot Ava, either. There were androids, AI, Turing tests! This looked like the scifi movie of my dreams. But when I saw Ex Machina recently, I was terrified. Because it told the truth about what AI might become.
From this point forward, this post is chockfull of spoilers. You have been warned!
I should’ve expected as much. After all, the trailer hardly hides the fact that something goes very wrong in Ex Machina’s isolated artificial intelligence lab. It’s also the kind of plot twist we’re primed for in a world where some of the smartest people on the planet are warning us that computer scientists’ grand ambition to build a true AI is just plain dangerous.
Of course the robot was going to turn into a psycho killer, leaving broken mirrors smeared with blood and bodies on the floor. (Sorry, I told you there would be spoilers.)
The day after I saw Ex Machina, I took a trip to Carnegie Mellon University, where I met with a handful of robotics professors. The trip had nothing to do with the movie, but I ended up spending the next few days letting snake robots climb up my leg, watching soft robotic arms wave at me, and letting autonomous robots give me tours of campus.
Philosophers stone – selected views from the boat
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