Wednesday, April 22, 2015

At the movies: “Ex Machina”: Adam and Ava – tagesspiegel

17:58 clock David Assmann

” Ex Machina “Alex Garland told in his fascinating directorial debut of a Roboterin who can think and feel.

The first illusion is pretty obvious. Because if Nathan (Oscar Isaac), the reclusive genius founder of the world’s largest Internet search engine “Blue Book”, raffled among its employees a week together with it, then it must be assumed that he does not do this without ulterior motives. The winner Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) is still surprised when he learns after a long helicopter arrival that it hermit refuge in his eccentric boss no vacation awaits, but an important mission. Nathan has developed a robot, and Caleb to get into more discussion sessions on an assessment of whether the robot has consciousness -. So he should judge how perfect is this second deception

The fact that he as a specialist in artificial intelligence was not randomly selected for this task, it is in any case soon.

The robot that Nathan has constructed carries the regular features of a beautiful young woman (Alicia Vikander) and is called Ava. A man’s imagination for the viewer, of course, but just the result of a dazzling nerdy male fantasy she is too. As a prototype in the test phase is locked in a monitored with cameras rooms, Caleb talks to her by an armored glass. Their artificial intelligence is amazing, it responds appropriately to questions, provides meaningful counter-questions and reflects the satisfaction of their situation

2001, Blade Runner -. In many science fiction films develop machines Artificial Intelligence

But when suddenly the power goes out and therefore the cameras that Nathan meetings monitors, acknowledge their service, warns Ava Caleb that he could not trust Nathan. A third deception so, but who deceives here, and for what purpose? Is it just a trick to Nathan Caleb wants to test loyalty? Tracked Nathan perhaps an entirely different purpose? Or is Ava, who plays a double game

From the malignant board computer HAL in “2001″ on the replicants in “Blade Runner” to love capable operating system Samantha in “Her” – the dramatic theme that computer and develop robot through its artificial intelligence and pursue own targets that do not correspond to those of its designers, the stuff of many great science fiction films. The British writer Alex Garland, who has already made (after cooling settled in the near future novel by Kazuo Ishiguro) his fondness for science fiction demonstrated as a screenwriter of “Sunshine” and “Never Let Me Go”, compressed this subject in his directorial debut intimate play now adhere to a test set. More and more clearly come into Caleb’s meetings with Ava and conversations with Nathan the key issues to light. How does a robot that can feel and think of people? What is the difference between programmed memories and those based on lived experience? How does a sentient machine with the awareness that their creator can pull the plug you at any time? And how, in turn, is their creator in order to that the machine has this awareness?

Surprisingly, not Ava, but Nathan is the most fascinating character in the movie. About as far away from the stereotype of the mad scientist he is an opaque, contradictory character, almost delusional monitors operations in his laboratory with sophisticated cameras and key card system, but his delusions of control undermines by nightly binge drinking – which until last remains of how much of its action is planned manner. At 13, he had written as a kind of Mozart the source code of the program code for its search engine, from whose data he Avas now fed consciousness. “My predecessors have the technology used to find out what people think. I use it to find out how they think, “he explains Caleb on. Like most stories about artificial intelligence is this a disturbing vision. As use of everyday materials data Ava is but a pleasing constructive outcome

Cinemax, Colosseum, Cubix and the Zoo Palast. OV at Cinestar Sony Center; OV: Central, FaF, Kant, Odeon, Rollberg

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