The aim of achieving the perfect way to create artificial intelligence, an AI, is one that many people wish to achieve and one that society is anticipating. The movie Ex Machina (2015) explores the development of a somewhat “perfect” AI Ava, who draws parallels to a robot that exists today, Sophia. In the movie, Ava’s creator Nathan mentioned something that society now days all believe to be true. That is, we are all being watched through our screens and everything we do can be tracked. No one is safe from the devices we all have become depend on. One thing this movie brought to light was the idea that we all expect AI’s to be the perfect human. In the movie, Caleb is questioned by Ava as to what would happen to her if she were to fail the test in which he responds that she might be switched off. Ava then asks Caleb if he, as a human, has someone to test him and if he fails, he will be switched off. With some who fear that one day, technology would be the end of humanity, why is there a strive for the creation of something too perfect for society to handle? Its clear that the human species will cease to exist because there will always be something a robot cannot do, so whats the purpose of creating something that is better than us in every way. Towards the end of the movie, Caleb starts to question if he himself is an AI because it seems that everyone aside from Nathan is an AI. It brings up the question of whether or not there exists and AI in society today. Maybe there is a Kyoto in society but theyre made so perfectly that we don’t even realize it.

After watching the movie “Ex Machina”, I feel really really impressed.  It is about an AI name Ava uses her intelligence to escape the laboratory.  At first I thought, Ava is just a regular AI or at least better than regular AI since she can communicate with Caleb. Also, even though I don’t think she has any emotions since she doesn’t really show how she feels, she feels Caleb’s emotion.  Also, when Ava tells Caleb that he should not trust Nathan because Nathan is lying about everything, I even thought Nathan will be the big boss in the movie. However, at the end, Ava escapes, kills Nathan and even locks Caleb inside the laboratory.  This proves my point that she didn’t have any emotions, in other words, she doesn’t have a heart. That’s why she locks Caleb inside even though Caleb tries to save her. One thing that frightens me is that she uses the sympathy inside a human to help her to escape.  She pretends that she fall in love with Caleb and acts like she is curious about the outside world. Because of that Caleb begins to have pity on her. Because of that Caleb decides to help her to escape. It is really scary when an AI knows the weakness of most humans, and she planned everything by herself, which means she might be smarter than a human being. Also, I observe one thing in the movie. Everytime when a new test begins, there will be something written on the screen says stage 1, etc. Even though it is talking about the process of turing test, I interpreted that in different ways.  I feel like it is more like Ava’s plan step 1. And at the end, when Ava kills Nathan and locks Caleb, the screen also prints that for one last time. I think this basically means Ava’s plan is successful.

This movie makes me rethink about AI. Before watching this movie, I feel like why not just have AI, they are great.  They can do everything for us. Right now, I feel like AI might be more dangerous than human beings. What makes human being so dangerous is that they have the intelligence to dominate other species. However, humans will not do anything they want because they have emotion and sympathy.  They sympathy the weak, they help the people who used to help them. Emotion/feelings and sympathy are the greatest weapon to restrict human beings. However, AI don’t have that and in fact they might be smarter than humans. Therefore, they become unstoppable without humans’ control. Also, fun fact. Usually in the terror movie, those monsters are very similar to a human, such as zombie etc. The reason why it is make like that is because humans naturally resist something that looks like themselves, but at the same time not a human being. Therefore, if AI are made to be look like a human being, it will cause a lot of terror, and if AI is able to think by themselves, they might start to resist humans and even try to overthrow them.