Редактирование: Ex Machina

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'''Ex Machina''' is a 2015 sci-fi psychological thriller film that was written and directed by Alex Garland.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0307497/ Alex Garland - IMDb]</ref> The movie focuses on a scenario to do with [[AI]] emergence under controlled conditions.

== Plot ==
A programmer wins a week's vacation with an eccentric [[Larry Page]]-like search engine billionaire in what turns out to be a secretly designed AI and robotics laboratory. There he must test a gynoid with an extended version of the [[Turing test]] to provide an independent review.

However it turns out that he was in fact placed as bait to see whether the AI would manipulate him to trigger her escape.
== Futurist themes ==
There is relatively heavy use of technical jargon for such a film, from crowdsourced image recognition, machine learning, references to mass surveillance as well as the problems associated with [[simulated consciousness]] and the difficulties associated with verifying this.

The billionaire antagonist is unlikeable and egotistical in his treatment of the gynoids as [[sex robots]] and in his duplicitous manipulation of the protagonist. The conclusion references the atomic bomb inventor Oppenheimer quote:
<blockquote>Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer]</ref></blockquote>

Even after the gynoid destroys her creator in the time-honoured method of [[Frankenstein]], in the end it is left ambiguous whether the escaped AI will be a force for good or evil.

The film can be seen as an exploration of the [[AI Control Problem]] of containing a superintelligent AI, as described by [[Nick Bostrom]] in his book [[Superintelligence (book) | Superintelligence]], and as originally explored by [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] under the concept of "AI in a box".<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/3wv2g4/yudkowskys_ai_box_and_ex_machina_why_the_ai_is/ "Yudkowsky's AI Box and Ex Machina"]</ref>

== External links ==
* {{Wikipedia|Ex Machina (film)}}
== References ==
[[Category:Film and TV]]
[[Category:Dystopian transhumanism]]
[[Category:AI in Fiction]]