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[YT Edit] Ex Machina
Added 2022-05-27 05:21:52 +0000 UTCHey guys! Here's the YT edit for Ex Machina which will premiere tomorrow afternoon on YT. Hope you guys enjoy!
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Here is the full reaction to Ex Machina.
Comments
I really like this film, but one thing always bothered me - the lack of a failsafe. As a brilliant programmer, it would have been trivial for Nathan to embed a secret phrase or password into Ava's programming which, when spoken or activated, would cause Ava to shutdown, return to her room to await further instructions, or reboot her into (literally) safe mode. Such a simple thing. That no such failsafe existed is implausible in the extreme.
John Courtright
2022-06-07 07:15:42 +0000 UTCNope. Nothing. Caleb and Ava are the villains of the movie. Nathan is a saint in comparison.
granny_goodness
2022-05-30 02:14:52 +0000 UTCI'd like to think Caleb survived. He couldn't escape right away, but he's smart. He would have figured something out or someone would have eventually gone looking for him or Nathan.
Eddie
2022-05-29 17:05:42 +0000 UTCThis was my first time watching also, and I pretty much felt the same as Cassie. The movie was successful in making us feel empathy for Ava, then she betrayed us as much as she betrayed Caleb. As far as the Turing test is concerned, this does not really portray a Turing test since the human knows up front that she is artificial. Even that betrayal at the end does not really prove anything because machines can be taught to take the most likely path toward self-survival As far as Ava's complete lack of empathy toward Caleb at the end, it could be argued that it was simply a learned response to Nathan's lack of empathy.
Alan Kobb
2022-05-29 16:42:15 +0000 UTCWith Monday being Memorial Day, a very important holiday, here's a list of some of my favorite movies that honor the sacrifice of our real life superheroes: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, The Patriot, Behind Enemy Lines, Saving Private Ryan, Heartbreak Ridge, Top Gun, American Sniper, The Great Escape, Sands of Iwo Jima, Lone Survivor, Pearl Harbor, To The Shores of Tripoli, Battle: Los Angeles, Gung Ho!, Hall of Montezuma.
David Crabtree
2022-05-28 22:33:51 +0000 UTC"...can she feel love... or, empathy... and if she can't... and I don't think she can, based on what I just saw... does that make ... her... true AI?" - - - It WAS Cassie. Cassie's assessment WAS the Turing Test (just as the ultra clever producer(s)/writer(s)/director/et. all prompts her... and any perseptive-intelligent audience member to be). I just knew when I saw that it was to be 'Ex Machina'... that Cassie's mind was going to be 'bent'... but as a world-class reactor, I should have anticipated this was to be the ultimate 'RECT-TEST-META-EXPERIENCE.' This reaction was beyond-BEYOND Great! I'm not sure if Cassie has seen the: 'Imitation Game'- (2014) staring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, but even if she had, I doubt she would realize IG was about the same Alan Turing referenced here. I just know the Touring Test was... difficult... for her, but, as hard as it was for her, Cassie. was... oh so much... the valid - 'human' - 'tester' - element. I hope you played out your part, as the test validator.
Terry Yelmene
2022-05-28 13:24:32 +0000 UTCCan’t wait to see this reaction. One of my top ten favorites of 2015.
Joe M
2022-05-28 13:01:24 +0000 UTCI like the bit at the end when Nathan preempts Caleb’s attempt to break Ava out… but Caleb outsmarts him by preempting Nathan’s actions. THEN they realise Ava is smarter than BOTH of them and has completely manipulated the whole situation.
Ria Grix
2022-05-28 12:02:50 +0000 UTCNathan did many things wrong!
Jason Schuler
2022-05-28 08:47:18 +0000 UTCHeh, Carol. Me being clueless is always a reasonable bet ;)
Uncle 'Traveling' Matt
2022-05-28 08:13:49 +0000 UTCMaybe the movie isn't about what you think it is.
Carol_White
2022-05-28 06:44:09 +0000 UTCNathan did nothing wrong.
granny_goodness
2022-05-28 04:24:23 +0000 UTC"At first I thought she was mapping from internal semantic form to syntactic tree structure and then getting lineralized words..." I'm a big fan of this film, no doubt. But, for what it's worth, this is just gobbledygook. Westworld suffered from the same problem... as did Arrival :(
Uncle 'Traveling' Matt
2022-05-28 01:04:34 +0000 UTCThere's a little-known British TV series called Humans that always reminds me of Ex Machina. Very similar tone and theme. It probably wouldn't get enough clicks to be worth reacting to, but it's similarly thought-provoking. One character in particular is a lot like Ava, after escaping into the human world. With a few script changes, it could almost work as a sequel.
Ghostwriter
2022-05-27 21:52:48 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite moments in this entire movie is right before the elevator door closes on Ava, she briefly glances back at Caleb. What is she thinking in that moment?
Stick Figure Studios
2022-05-27 20:57:48 +0000 UTCAlso Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) is General Hux in Star Wars :-D
sage2d2
2022-05-27 20:52:29 +0000 UTC
