Ex Machina

    The movie ‘Ex Machina’ directed by Alex Garland is very interesting with the logic and technological beliefs. The plot is about the Caleb smith going to Nathan home to test Ava intelligence who is a robot. First, I would like to say that this movie has so much going on regarding the relationship between people and technology. I believe that if I had watched this movie for entertainment purposes, that I wouldn’t have realized some of the meanings and underlying lessons that we should learn from watching this movie.

    After a brief introduction between Caleb and Nathan, Nathan introduces Caleb to his experiment (Ava) and tells him that he wants him to spend the next week performing a live “Turing Test”. The Turing test was developed by Alan Turing in 1950. It is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit behavior equivalent to that of a human (Wikipedia). Throughout the movie Caleb has sessions with Ava, who has the appearance of a robotic woman with the shape and size but has a human face. During these sessions he asks her questions to try and figure out her level of intelligence. But throughout the questioning, Ava begins to flirt with and manipulate Caleb, while also leading him to believe that she is human. Both Caleb and Ava gets closer and gets into romance which later on in the movie Nathan warns about the same to Caleb that Ava merely wants to escape the house so she is acting in such way and that this also proves that Ava despite being robot has the artificial intelligence capabilities and she has succeeded in human qualities and intelligence while Ava put the allegation on Nathan and says that Nathan is a cruel person and he treats Ava badly. What Caleb later finds out is that Nathan has been working on these humanoids for years and that he was chosen based on his web-search history at work. He was chosen because he was single, had no family, his searches for porn, and Nathan wanted to see if Ava could outsmart him. At the End Ava Leaves Caleb trapped in the house and leaves in the helicopter meant to take Caleb.

The ethical aspect of the movie is that the machines when given a autonomy or when they are let out of control of the human can go to any extent leaving behind the very human who have created it and the humanly robot can manipulate human beings. In totality it can be said the advanced humanly equipped with intelligence machines can never be friend in the long run to human race. The machine shall be let to assist the mankind and not overtake it. This must be ensured while developing such machines.