ex machina

[vendic]

Um...yeah.
And not in a good way.

[SciFi Chick]

And yet, we're in the minority once again...

[Cyborg Girl]

Oh, it's from the same people as 28 Days Later?

[Sigma_Orionis]

Never heard of it, so I googled it. It sounds intriguing.

[Cyborg Girl]

Concept looks interesting. The ending OTOH looks stupid, but that seems par for the course for anything involving AI these days.

I think I'll pass. But then, I generally don't like watching movies anyway... So whatever.

[Thumper]

Didn't that come out like 6 months ago? Read a couple interesting reviews. Was interested, rarely get to go, though.

[vendic]

Oh, it's from the same people as 28 Days Later?

Same director but in this film he also was the writer. I liked 28 Days later. It was a great movie. This not so much.

Didn't that come out like 6 months ago? Read a couple interesting reviews. Was interested, rarely get to go, though.

Pretty sure you're right since we hired it from Amazon and streamed to the projector.

If I had to review it, I'd say it was like a poor B grade 50's scifi with modern cgi.

The wife's cousin ( a professor in the classics, philosophy) loved it. He has a fascination with the singularity event for AI so I guess for him it would be fun. I just found it child like in presentation of advanced concepts. For example, why they had the leading programmers, one "the" genius, discuss if the other understands the Turing test for AI. Basically it's a movie made for people not in the tech field about a subject that tries to go into the details of a specialised area of AI research.
It's hard for a movie to break down AI analysis and make it appealing. It would be like making a movie that discusses the intricacies of sub 22nM silicon fabrication. To paraphrase squid in a discussion of AI. This movie had steps:

1) Search engines
2) Mad scientist/programmer
3) ???
4) AI Singularity
5) Terminators!

[Thumper]

According to IMDB:
Initial release: April 15, 2015
First DVD release: July 14, 2015

But then I saw this. So I guess it depends on where you happen to be on the planet that governs when you get to rent a movie you don't like.

[Thumper]

Finally ended up watching it last night. I found it interesting. It was suspenseful in that you weren't sure which part was actually the test, or who was manipulating who. I get that people didn't like the ending, some said it "made an arbitrary left turn into a corny slasher flick." But to me it made a point that if you're trying to make a robot as human as possible, some of our bad traits will be transferred. I enjoyed it.