Films · Tag
classification
3 films tagged with “classification”
film · 2014
Ex Machina
Alex Garland
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…
artificial-intelligenceturing-testmodels
film · 1997
Gattaca
Andrew Niccol
Gattaca is the clearest film ever made about what happens when a proxy metric becomes the thing itself. The genome was meant to predict outcomes; by the time the film opens it has stopped predicting anything, because it…
proxy-metricsmodelsclassification
film · 1982
Blade Runner
Ridley Scott
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…
artificial-intelligenceidentityclassification