One of the best movie reviews yet, chock with links to fascinating facts on the long history of transhumanism, and the article itself eventually discloses it's ultimate goal. Good stuff....
Caleb, Ava and Nathan. Film poster.
By: Jay Dyer
Spoilers Ahead
Ex Machina is the latest incarnation of the familiar
Short Circuit theme we’ve seen lately – but this film does not feature the madcap antics of Johnny 5 seducing Ally Sheedy. In
Ex Machina,
the bots are babes, and the babe bots are not happy about their male
masters, and Steve Gutenberg is not one of them. However, there is a
lot of sexual innuendo and robo fetish in this download, and as you can
imagine with a JaysAnalysis analysis, there’s a deeper, esoteric
meaning! Boot up your floppies and polish your laser discs because if
there’s anything we can learn from
Ex Machina, it’s that you can make a chick perfect and she still ain’t happy.
For most nerds, the robobabe is some kind of fantasy, but
Ex Machina has an important lesson to teach all nerds: give up that pipe dream. Recalling iconic imagery from
Speilberg’s A.I., PKD and
Blade Runner,
here we have the archetypal tech geek who is coaxed into meeting a tech
elite at his underground mountain facility following winning a
“contest.” As a low-level coder at Bluebook, the world’s largest search
engine, Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson) discovers his CEO,
Nathan Bateman’s (played by Oliver Isaac) home is actually a research
facility for super advanced A.I. Guarded by levels of security
requiring key cards and shrouded in secrecy, Bateman’s zen architecture
provides a stark contrast of cold techno logic against the lush green of
the mountain forests, foreshadowing the coming faceoff between
nature/man and A.I. As with
2001: A Space Odyssey, man specifically will square off, not against the masculine HAL, but the
feminine Ava (played by Alicia Vikander).
Caleb is instructed by Nathan to perform a series of Turing tests on
Ava to see if she can pass by fooling him into thinking she is
self-aware. Boozing his way through the film, Nathan’s shady side
gradually emerges as it becomes evident he is lying to Caleb. Modelled
on a seven-day week patterned after the days of creation in Genesis,
each day Caleb conducts a “session” with Ava that involves a series of
questions between them, as Nathan watches each session from his panoptic
surveillance system. Dating herself as “1,” Ava refuses to specify
whether she is one day or one year old, indicating (following the
climax) that she is not concerned with dates because she is the new
number 1, the first, as a fembot replacement of Adam.
With lifelike precision, Ava is able to perfectly mimic human
emotions and manipulate Caleb into thinking she is self-aware and
experiences emotional attachment to him. Utilizing his weakness as a
horny, single tech geek, Ava we find has profiled Caleb from the
beginning, and rather than winning a competition, the real study is not
Ava, but a deep psychological operation on Caleb to see if he can be
manipulated by A.I. Nathan has planned all along to deceive Caleb into
thinking he is special, and through mass surveillance data collected
globally, Nathan is able to construct the perfect A.I. deception based
on Caleb’s online footprint and psych profile.
Readers will recall that I highlighted in this very idea in past
articles, explaining that social media and search engines themselves are
designed ultimately to provide the synthetic version of the
subconscious for the “global brain.” The global brain is a real plan, and as
highlighted in my analysis of Spike Jonze’s Her,
it will be linked into the supercomputers, the Internet of Things, and
the mass data from search engines and social media. All of this is
explicitly stated and revealed in the plot of
Ex Machina, even
to the point of Caleb sounding like he was reading directly from
JaysAnalysis articles – that problems in the philosophy of linguistics
and pattern recognition would be central to avoiding the Godelian “loop”
of determined reactions, that might be circumvented by
linking the A.I. to the “global brain.” As I wrote in reference to
Her:
Ava, the embodiment of Lilith, Sophia and the Golem.
The Manhattan Project also reaches as far
as the Salk Institute, brain initiatives, mass innoculations (via Dr.
Salk), and much, much more. Even now, the Manhattan Projects many
transformations has led to its present incarnation as the Department of
Energy, and Oak Ridge, TN’s old atomic factory is now the home to an NSA
supercomuputer (under the Department of Energy). Supercomputers like
these are the backbone of this “global brain.”
Read the rest of this article at - http://jaysanalysis.com/2015/04/26/ex-machina-the-global-a-i-brain-revealed/
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