Really loved Ex machine, we were talking about it for ages afterwards.
 

My wife and I have been watching Humans, which is an AI based TV series. The acting and effects is not going to blow you away, but it's worth a watch, IMO.
 
Another AI movie that I enjoyed, even though it gets a poor rating on IMDB, is The Machine.
 
I also purchased and watched Automata, with Antonio Banderos (average). I sort of enjoyed it, but was hoping for more action. Again, poor rating on IMDB...
 
 

Kamikaze
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Regards the nudity, a little spoilerish.
 
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I'm not a great fan of the way that nudity is shown, in many films, specially made in America. It's a combination of fold-out and keyhole peep'ery, just like the early movie machines ... you put in your quarter and see something for a few seconds.
 
In general, there are films where the nudity is just a natural part of the whole thing and it is easy to watch, and you don't even think about the nudity, and that makes for a better film, for me. American films, in general, are horrible about nudity and I think a lot of it has to do with the TV crowd and militia, that want to corner the morality in this country. I honestly think that many of these film makers are scared of doing anything that does not look like Playboy magazine a few decades back ... and the camera shots making sure that they are brief, because you are too shy or self-conscious to really look at it!
 
I have watched what appears to be over 20 minutes of bits and pieces from that film, and will eventually watch it, but ... it was too much "movie" for me, and leaning towards the fantasy side of things that it actually becomes a turn off! Porno, at least is better than peep'ery!

kakku
I found it disappointing. I hoped the ending had been completely different. A kind of happy ending. 6/10.

IMO I thought the ending was a brilliant... wrapped up the movie quite nicely - even if it was a little dark.
This is one movie that needs more than one watch to catch all of the details...

I would recommend reading Ray Kurzweil's (nonfiction) book "The Singularity is Near". Not that it addresses the Turing question directly, but rather because it explores the ramifications of blurring the human-machine distinction. It convincingly makes the case that this merge is really coming, and much sooner than you think.

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it won't be in our lifetime Bit, I don't think.
 
But it will be at that time, that people will be replaced, and then told they can not reproduce and 1984 is in full force, if not Animal Farm. With some puti______ in charge of course! Or one of those that say they talk to God in the east, and that we're heathens because we don't!
 
Hard to not be cynical about that topic, but yeah ... I'm pretty sure it will come. It will change the face of porn, hey?
 Can you imagine? All that anime from Japan, apparently now being almost real?
 
Some other changes for the future I expect ... literature and film will become the same thing as the viable story telling medium. The problem is that for 100 years no one will consider "Lawrence of Arabia" by David Lean ... a "novel" ... and that means that the terminology will change. You don't need to "see it" to "read it", or vice versa. Both will be the same ... and in some ways, it is possible that the experience will be better, but in the end, the harder and harsher material will fall out, I bet! This means a Marquis de Sade would have no value whatsoever for most folks and would be ignored, as an example! Not to mention many others. Can you imagine Baudelaire and Jean Genet? That ought to be fun ... "Our Lady of Flowers" as a visual ... dang ... most of us will run out of here so fast, screaming!

One thought I had about AI after seeing Ex Machina was if you create an AI which does not include emotions then it will not be urged to communicate at all...it would just sit there having no reason to communicate since it would have no needs.

But if you create an AI with emotions it may go the way of madness if it is confined and definitely would try to escape.

What I thought about, at the end of the movie was, where is she going to charge her batteries? There was no mention of photovoltaic cells or anything...

I figure she is smart enough to make a charger, but I can see where she may have a need to return in the future. She may need a new arm or something.

clintmartin
I figure she is smart enough to make a charger, but I can she where she may have a need to return in the future. She may need a new arm or something.

well, if the simple task was "find a way out of the maze" (as it was suggested) - then the robot achieved just that, afterwards is irrelevant