Sambeg Raj Subedi
ENGL 21007-S
Prof. Jesse Rice-Evans
Weekly Assign#5
03/05/2019

The movie Ex Machina was so powerful, which made me think for a second about the future of today’s world. Briefly discussing the movie, Nathan, Caleb, and Ava were the center characters. Nathan owned the company called Blue Book where Caleb works as an employee. Caleb was selected for Nathans Experiment where he had to perform a “Turning test” for a week. Nathans experiment was about the implication of Artificial Intelligence on the human looking machines, robots. He had created lots of robots, but he wanted to make a test on Ava, one of his experiment. Caleb was requested to communicate with Ava and analyze her mentally and emotionally whether she finds herself limited as a machine. Ava, despite being a machine had feelings, emotion, and sexuality and with the intention to manipulate him, showed him some love and affection. She even tried to flirt with him and made him against Nathan. During the time, she had also developed a skill to make “power cuts”, so that she could keep their conversation secret. But in the end, it was found that she was just finding a way to escape. Caleb thought that Nathan was doing wrong by isolating them from the outer world and tried to help them escape but, I think Nathan previously knew what could happen if they are freed. So, in the end, when he knew they are going to escape, he completely destroyed one of the robots and damaged Ava’s right hand.
In today’s world, the use of AI has increased rapidly. People like to use AI technology in Bank, Business, and in almost every field for their profit. In some case, it had been found fruitful too, such as in healthcare. But if this powerful tool is not handed carefully then this best tool can be the worst. From this movie, we realized how technology can take over human abilities and go beyond their control.