Alex Garland on Ex Machina, artificial intelligence & the future | Channel 4 News

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Alex Garland, author of The Beach, talks to Tom Clarke about the benefits to mankind of artificial intelligence. His latest film, Ex Machina, which he directed and wrote the screenplay for, is about a breakthrough experiment in AI.
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[@BenNCM]

glad the camera was focused on Alex for the duration of the interview

[@stojadinovicdushan]

Garland always gives such intelligent interviews, I’d love to see him do TED talk

[@istvantoth7431]

Big thumbs up to the Interviewer for the questions! Well done!

[@TheLonesomeChef]

Those clips in between the interview give away so much of movie. beware if you haven't seen this movie.

[@youtuberl9536]

amazing. great interview. very thoughtful.

[@Zombiesnyder13]

This guy should make an episode of Black Mirror

[@brianjanson3498]

Today this has officially become the movie that I have seen the most at the theater. I have seen it four times. Prior to that I went to Goodfellas and Taxi Driver three times each. I can't wait to own the DVD.

[@level64films]

Good man Sir.. Genius is a good description..

[@sovereignchild8802]

I love listening to Alex Garland because he is full of intelligence and depth and more. Ex Machina was for me a total show stopper. It was mesmerising on so many levels this film. It was a masterpiece. Pure Genius. I have watched the film many times and it's depth and intelligence amaze me. Ava was a true AI and more. She was as real as any human if not more. She was advanced and so intelligent and perceptive. I loved her. She is wonder woman totally. If met on the street we would not know . I wanted to know her. I want her as my friend! She wows me. She was indistinguishable. She was beyond human in a brilliant way, more than human, showing us something more...She had it. She is IT. She has intelligent consciousness emanating from her. She has beauty emanating from her. She is captivating, deep and so stunning. She has been created to be beyond human consciousness. She is advanced and equipped to the hilt. She sees more than anyone could see and knows more than anyone could know. Alicia Vikander was exceptional in this film. Her composure, voice and beauty are almost not human in real life. She is an exceptional human being for sure. A vastly unique individual. Her voice is a gift from God. I loved the film so much. Thank You Alex Garland for making such an intelligent timely relevant film which I feel was so important to humanity at this time. What a beautiful man you are. So humble so modest no ego. What a beautiful face you have. You are incredible too.

[@kingjohnny7215]

The film was Incredible on so many levels, watched it several times , Such a smart script. The Actress Alicia Vikander was wonderful as Ava, an AI, but Ava was a Robot, not a human being with a Soul or true consciousness. She was programmed to use Caleb to escape & that's what she did. If she took Caleb with her then that would suggest something more, human emotion, Love, Friendship, which of course there can't be, because no matter how the AI was presented here dressed up as a demure girl/woman, it's a robot, not a Human person with a soul. Ava was a Programmed Actress . "Actor" in the Greek means deceiver, & this AI was programmed to deceive. If she had saved Caleb she would have truly 'transcended' her artificial intelligence and start to begin thinking like a human & would have saved Him, risen above her Programming & took Caleb with Her. The point of the movie was that Nathan was correct all along. Ava successfully seduced Caleb into setting her free using Programmed awareness, imagination, manipulation, sexuality, & fake empathy. she showed no human sense of empathy, for that reason, she failed the Turing test despite Caleb initially thinking she has passed it. She fooled/Deceived Caleb into thinking that she actually cared for him when in reality her sole priority was to escape. Ava is fundamentally evil. Ava doesn't care about Humans at All, Similar to HAL in 2001 A Space Odyssey.

[@EvilUkrainian]

AI is the next step in human's mind evolution. Our body in some sense limits our capabilities. For some reason I like this thought.

[@LJLewis94]

Oleksandr Chyrko no, time limits us

[@micoforion]

looks good :)

[@Ofinfinitejest]

His views at the end are precisely in line with those of Stanley Kubrick. A. I. will be in various ways our children--it doesn't matter if they're made of meat. We should raise them well and have high hopes for their future. This was Kubrick's intended concept for the film "A I" but the Spielberg film ruined this idea.

[@squamish4244]

Ofinfinitejest There's actually a lot of debate about whether Spielberg did in fact change anything, including the ending.

[@ULYSSES-31]

Ofinfinitejest Spielberg changed little.

[@olitomar]

valinor100 im sure kubricks emphasis wouldn't have been on the rosie "love" story between the kid and his mom. that already makes it very different.

[@domzbu]

Spielberg makes sausages

[@ULYSSES-31]

+Pete That's not kosher.

[@veronicadredd22]

I hope this movie is a success , and that it will give him the leverage to make Dredd 2 .

[@MarkOKeeffe]

I just watched it. It's a masterpiece! Go to see it if you have not already done so.

[@fruitismurder]

Mark O'Keeffe My name's david

[@zasddsaf]

great sci fi film

[@colinnixon7055]

arther c klark. started this ball rolling.?

[@josephpereira8681]

the singulairty i wasnt crazy

[@caracolalface6310]

i don't feel alarmed..famous last words

[@liamsynthhead]

Alex Garland is sooo hot!

[@scirrhia_kruden]

I'm tired of hearing people talk about "sentient" AI. Sentience is the ability to sense. All animals are sentient. The difference between myself and my cat is sapience, which is self-awareness and the capacity for wisdom with regards to one's self.

[@fuckenps3]

But AI has not even reached sentience in the subjective use, as in qualia or whatever it is. Consciousness and all that.

[@scirrhia_kruden]

NDfor SPDadsdas Yes it has. There are AI that can respond to stimuli according to their own internal logic. They can think and react. Therefore they are sentient.

[@fuckenps3]

I specified on purpose what I meant but you chose to ignore it.

[@scirrhia_kruden]

NDfor SPDadsdas Well, what I meant to say is that if something reacts to stimuli according to internal logic, it has qualia. Cats and dogs are sentient, they're capable of subjective experience, even though they're incapable of complex thinking or introspection. There are AI that can feel and react according to internal calculations. That is sentience, in every definition of the term.

[@fuckenps3]

I see what you mean but I don't think it's as definitive. I think there is a difference in semantics between those technically minded and philosophers. Is reacting the same as really experiencing something? See: Mary's room.

[@thecontainerthecontents6889]

Shayan recommended Sunshine, and thought up Usa Civil War movie ages ago. But if this is shayan... masterful job bc i cannot really see him under this disguise. Face structure seems wrong. Hm. Ohhh oscar issac... is shayan?? close but jaws wrong... hm

[@TomasVender]

ChatGPT here we go

[@basscataz]

I think his thoughts on companies being more powerful than governments is common and very silly. No company, even Google has power like the Man has. We're collectively asleep at the wheel when we forget that government power is ultimate power. We just haven't been reminded recently. But we will be reminded sooner than later, and it will be terrible.

[@ronaldckrausejr7762]

Alex Garland is pure genius, but... One of his perspectives is quite wrong. He points out the space examples and that we will most likely be forever stuck in this solar system. Let me point out a few items... 1. Look how long man has been flying - in various forms of aircraft naturally. Look at what has occurred over the last one hundred years. Better yet, look how much the contributions of just one single person (Howard Hughes) has contributed towards aviation. How about Richard Branson as well? 2. Look at how far man is capable of in space. We've sent a few people to the Moon, and have various forms of unmanned rovers all over the place. Within about ten years there will be the capability of going to Mars. 3. The technology exists to spread throughout the solar system - today. The only single item that limits everything is money. 4. Once we do permanently inhabit a place such as the Moon or Mars, more efforts will be placed into exploration beyond the solar system. It's not as far off as one might think. 5. The theories of travel... Which go well beyond theories. Money aside, we have the technology to leave the solar system today. It would take a darned long time, and even take the people dedicated to living basically their entire lives in space. One of the net steps would be a type of propulsion technology that would allow much faster travel, or a technology that we have yet to master - much like how the world had no real clue about even air travel about one hundred years ago

[@SiC83]

watch Kurtzgesagt "How Far Can We Go? Limits of Humanity.", I agree with the statment that we are limited to our solar system

[@thekrustaceox5181]

Skynet is right. We suck.

[@squidthing]

I love Alex Garland's films (as both director and screenwriter) but man his permanently annoyed/bored looking face cracks me up. I bet even on his happiest day he'd still be stuck that way. He's like a human grumpy cat. "Alex you've just won 20 Oscars and the lottery on the same night and now a yacht full of supermodels have arrived to have their way with you for at least a month lf sexual shenanigans, how do you feel?" A: 😐

[@YaYaMan]

The guy constantly looks agitated in all of his interviews.

[@Troy-ol5fk]

I think the 'Ava' of our world will be made by google