artificial intelligence
4 films tagged with “artificial intelligence”
Ex Machina
The Turing test, as it is actually deployed in Ex Machina, does not test the machine. It tests the man administering it. Caleb has been brought in to determine whether Ava possesses genuine consciousness, and the whole a…
Blade Runner
The Voight-Kampff machine is a classifier, and everything that goes wrong in Blade Runner goes wrong in the way classifiers go wrong. It does not detect artificiality directly, because artificiality is not observable; it…
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Nothing malfunctions in this film. That is what makes it the most literal treatment of the alignment problem in cinema, and why it has aged better than almost every AI story that came after it. Colossus was specified to…
2001: A Space Odyssey
A hominid discovers that a thigh bone can be swung, kills a rival with it, and throws it into the air in triumph. The bone tumbles against the sky, and Kubrick cuts — to an orbiting satellite, four million years later, m…