AI researcher Sasha Luccioni said that Alex Garland’s sci-fi thriller ex machina Depicts multiple technological inaccuracies, despite holding a 92% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes. The 2015 film directed by Garland sees the young programmer Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) win a contest to spend a week with Nathan Bateman (Oscar Issac), the CEO of the search engine company he works for. Soon, however, he learns that he has been chosen to help determine the capabilities of Nathan’s AI robot Ava (Alicia Vikander). The film received high critical praise, later winning Best Visual Effects and being nominated for Best Screenplay at the Oscars.
Talk to Inside On their series How real is it?Luccioni discusses the technological inaccuracies of ex machinaDespite its critical praise. Starting at 9:00, the AI ​​expert explains how Nathan hacking everyone’s cellphone data would be nearly impossible, even at his level in his company. Luccioni also explains how Ava’s ability to detect lies and emotions would be hard to doBecause she couldn’t read his mind. Check out the video and what Luccioni had to say below:
Getting everyone’s cellphone data would be a really hard hack to do. So I would hope that our data is more, well, better protected than that, let’s say. But of course, I mean, you hear of cases of microphones being switched on when someone’s phone is on.
So there are AIs that are purported to detect if people are lying and to detect their emotions. The only one I would trust to a certain extent, would be things like lie-detector tests, which already exist, but which are really based on heartbeats and how stressed people really get in the physiological sense, how stressed our body is. . But anything that’s based on just video, for example, of someone talking into a camera, I really wouldn’t trust that. For example, if it was trained on Caleb’s data, it could tell that Caleb was lying down, but it couldn’t tell, and couldn’t read his mind. In this case, you need, like, direct access to someone’s brain. I would rate this a 4 [out of 10]Because the whole consciousness aspect, and the aspect of detecting a lie just based on … a one-word answer, is really hard to believe.
What a lack of technological realism means for Ex Machina
The movie is still memorable despite the liberties it takes
Luccioni’s low rating for the AI-based movie’s realistic qualities detracts somewhat from the movie’s premise.Since, despite the latest developments in the field, nothing like Garland’s movie could happen. While movies like ex machinaSuch as M3GANPreaching the dangers of relying on technology and AI for self-awareness, it calls into question how realistic such premises are. Even if AI developments could lead to more human-like technology as time progresses, hacking the world’s cellphone network and having a robot predict emotions might be too unbelievable for reality.
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However, the biggest focus of Garland’s movie is its theme of technology gone too far, visible through ex machina Ending with Ava blending in with human society. The film focuses on the idea that AI will become part of society in major ways, something that cannot be stopped due to the continuous development it will undergo in different sectors of the tech industry. Although the premise itself takes liberties with how such technology can be developed, These themes are strengthened by the extreme take on how an AI robot can develop.
Our take on Ex Machina’s technological inaccuracies
It widens the gap between fact and fiction
Although it is disappointing that ex machina Is not as grounded in reality as its presentation makes it out to be, it does not detract from the terror of the movie’s premise. Even if AI can’t do what Ava does, the movie’s balance between misguided progress, what it means to be human, and the cost of technological advancement make it a complex, memorable part of Garland’s career. It’s also somewhat relieving to know that AI probably won’t progress that far in some time, and not in the way the movie depicts.
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