The Relationship Between Humans And The Machines In Alex Garland's Ex Machina

Being a human is a digital reality in the Matrix; in the real world, everyone is just a power/heat source for the artificial intelligent machines that

Ex Machina is a film about a scientist named Nathan who has selected an employee of his, Caleb Smith, to be flown out to his estate for a week. When Caleb arrives Nathan tells him that he has been selected to be part of a Turing test. A Turing Test is when you have a human and a computer interact with each other and if the human doesn’t know that they are interacting with a computer, then the test is passed. But Nathan has already completed that part of the test so now he wants Caleb to actually see her and have a one on one conversation with her see if Caleb still feels that the robot has consciousness. So, it turns out that Nathan has created a humanoid robot with artificial intelligence and her name is Ava. Ava appears with a robotic body but

The increased development of artificial intelligence and the everyday use of technology can lead to a future full of robots, claims Eastlyn Koons in Robots are Better than Humans. Koons lives in the modern day where advancements are being made every day in the field of technology and artificial intelligence machines have started to replace the jobs of some people. People fear the uprising of robot rebellion and an inevitable Doomsday because of it. Through appeals to fear and pride, Koons asks the world to consider the use of technology in their lives and the role it may play in the future.

When you think of new technologies such as robots, or peculiar man-made beings like monsters, what feeling comes to mind? Fear? Excitement? Uncertainty? In ‘The Rebellious Robot’ the mood is happy and exciting, very different from ‘Frankenstein’ where the mood and overall feeling is dark, gloomy, and suspenseful.

Her and Ex-Machina are both eye-opening and fascinating looks at our future. They seek to define what it means to be human rather than exploiting cultural anxieties about artificial intelligence. The underlying message they give is consciousness denotes humanity. Both the movies pose questions and thoughts about what it would be like to accept and co-exist with ‘the other’ in the future

The setting of Ex Machina is utilized to create a distinct parallel of male territory being on the first floor of the house and of female-AI domain belonging to the subterranean levels of the house. This binary suggests that males are supreme over females by having their province in the house literally above the females which suggests their dominance in the “trophic levels” of life. Likewise, the first conversation Nathan, the creator, and Caleb, the tester, partake discussing the AI’s takes place on the first floor. Caleb retorts that Nathan has made deity-like history: “If you’ve created a conscious machine, it’s not the history of man. That’s the history of gods” (00:11:23). Male dominance further exudes from their dialect as Nathan exerts his divine authority over the AI’s by altering Caleb’s words to refer to himself as a

Cyborgs are a very complex creation of the future. The general concept is that they cannot be recognized as non-humans. Although it has a programmed mission, this unit thinks and reacts on its own. The understructure is made of a very

In the movie “Ex Machina” the director Alex Garland communicates with viewers that robots and humans can have relationships. Throughout the film the way robot, Ava, is portrayed is human like and she is able to build relationships with people. Alex Garland uses the way the camera is placed or way things are filmed to put emphasis on these interactions. The scholarly sources I used to compare the science fiction and real life examples are, Can Robots Manifest Personality?: An Empirical Test of Personality Recognition, Social Responses, by Kwan Min Lee and Social Presence in Human–Robot Interaction and Looking Forward to a “Robotic Society”? Notions of Future Human-Robot Relationships by Astrid Weiss. Scholarly

As the end of Ex Machina nears, Ava manipulates all other main characters to conform to her plan of escaping, including Kyoko, another one of Nathans bots, designed as a maid. Ava then completely ignores all laws of robotics and murders a human, while also leaving another human locked in an office to die. In ways, this scene can be watched from a subconscious viewpoint, to show women standing up against the male, to fight for themselves, and how females can be more powerful than males. This future, as shown by Ex Machina, shows how humanity is on the brink of mass AI, and the lead brain behind this is a sex-crazed billionaire. Every bot Nathan had made up to the point in the film had been made with an intention of sex, and this shows the male mind and the portrayal of females.

The cyborg can think beyond the thought of humans and animals separately and view them as one species. The boundary between animal-human and machine is used to describe the way Haraway views machines. Machines were lifeless. Nevertheless, machines have advanced beyond belief and there is no longer a distinction between humans and machines. Lastly, Haraway discusses the boundary between the physical and the non-physical with an example of televisions.

In a world that is overruled by power, love, and technology, both the book The Circle, by David Eggers, and the film Ex Machina, directed by Alex Garland, expand upon this idea. Filled with strange moments and unpredictable behavior, both the book and film put the audience into shock. The Circle is based on a young woman named Mae who has recently been hired to work for the company the Circle; One of the most powerful technological company’s in the world. Mae is brain washed by the company and goes to extreme measures to show her worth, which leads to shocking moments. The film Ex Machina is based on a human created AI (Artificial Intelligence) named Ava that is put under trial by interacting with another person to see how it interacts in one-on-one situations. Nathan, the creator of Ava, has invited Caleb to interact with Ava in hopes of her being the perfect robot after multiple sessions. Everything seems to be going normal, but things go in a different direction and leave the audience with their jaws hanging. Although they have completely different story lines, both the book and film share various themes.

To elaborate the Cyborg discussion around limits requires it to be placed inside wider, existing discussion. There are two fundamental perspectives to the debate. The Bioconservatists (social, eithical, cultural, economic) and the Transhumanists (biological science, technology). With very different worldviews.

The following essay will concern itself with the INTERNAL aspect, attaching it to the phenomenon of the cyborg which will be seen as a likely trajectory of the development of the central object of architectural study – the user - who is fast becoming harder to pinpoint in a posthumanist landscape.

The global industrialization in twentieth century rapidly shaped the human society in political, economical, cultural and other aspect. The idea of machine replacing human beings has been concerned by many scholars and scientists themselves. The definition of human being and the definition of machine ha s been challenged as they gradually become into a non-separated integration. We now have artificial limbs, man-made blood vessels and even micro-chips in our brains. In A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century, a well-known essay published in the late twentieth century, Donna Haraway developed the notion of Cyborg. She states that there is no actual boundary among “human”, “animal”, and

The concepts of cyborgs and robots in modern mass culture has been growing and, as the technologies available improve on a daily basis, the fictional characters and machines in science fiction stories are becoming gradually more real. The topic of robots has become extremely popular in modern days starting from the post war era.