Artificial Intelligence In Ex Machina's Science Fiction

In the movie business the director will usually do whatever it takes to try and attract to the audience, whether it be trying to appeal to a bias or just providing a cheap thrill. The movies Godzilla and Frankenstein are no different; they explore the unknown nature of technology and how it can be detrimental to us humans. By exploring these unknowns, movie makers are able to exploit how society feels about technology and push the boundaries of what 's right and wrong.

Susan Sontag, an author of the essay “Imagination Disaster,” explores the world of science fiction as she discusses the tropes in films from the mid-1900s. Throughout her essay, Sontag analyzes why these types of films were created, and basically ties her discussion with humanity. With the growing technological advances, science fiction films state specific things about how science threatens humanity. She also ties her discussion to how sci-fi films tend to serve an attempt at distributing a balance between humanity and the technological world. Sontag claims that science fiction films has suspense, shock, surprises, has an inexorable plot, and how they invite a dispassionate, aesthetic view of destruction and violence. She also states that sci-fi is touching and some of it is depressing. Basically, detects war that opposes no problems or moral qualifications. Finally, she makes a claim that science technology is a good unifier and how they create a utopian society where everyone thinks alike. Sontag states powerful claims that are indeed true. In fact, Guardians of The Galaxy vol. 2 is an excellent sci-fi film that supports Susans claims.

Nuclear warfare would be an ever-present threat throughout the Cold War, and it affected Americans’ lives. These nuclear anxieties can be seen to be reflected in the many science fiction movies involving monsters created from nuclear destruction, such as Them! ( The science fiction genre specifically grew in popularity because it allowed directors to address the problems of the fifties’ like the Red Scare, McCarthyism through metaphor without fear of censure.

In cinema nowadays, movies that are more famous among the people somehow engaged with explosions, gunfights, and superheroes. In the early days of cinema, the special spot for people had to do something with monsters and murderers. Some of these monsters have abilities to be sympathetic to the people who watch the movie. As a great example there is the movie Frankenstein. Dr. Frankenstein’s invention, is a monster that is created by an obnoxious scientist who decides to play god and it goes wrong. Dr. Frankenstein is the clear example of men playing with nature and then terrible consequences came into place.

In all great works of literature, including Unwind, The Time Machine, and Fahrenheit 451, setting has a tremendous impact on the characters. All authors show this influence in different ways. Some authors, like H.G. Wells, show the influence in an entire population of people, other authors, like Neal Shusterman, show it through one or two main characters. Ray Bradbury used his main character 's wife, Mildred, to show how large an influence the place a person lives in can have on a person. In his popular narrative Unwind, Shusterman shows the influence on his three main characters: sixteen year old Connor Lassiter, fifteen year old Risa Ward, and thirteen year old Lev Calder. In the literary classic The Time

In “Is Google Making Us Stupid” Nicholas Carr Provides his theory on how the internet is having a negative impact on the way people think and process with their brains. Carr states that, “I think I know what’s going on. For more than a decade now, I’ve been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the Internet.” (409) Carr simply puts it out there that we as human beings spend way too much time on our computers, tablets, phones, and other handheld devices that seem to chip away at our brains. Spending a lot of time online seems to sometimes make us “zombie-like”. I for one have experienced this feeling after being online for quite some time. Carr also says that, “For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind.” (409) The internet has made it so easy for a person to learn information, it’s just at the touch of fingertips.

Blade Runner is a movie that shows the true nature of the technology from a cyberpunk perseptive. It shows that inherently technology has no good or evil but rather that the byproduct of our advancements are unforeseen and possibly harmful consequences. It also shows that it 's really the user of technology that determines if the effects will be positive or negative. Blade Runner also appitimises the idea that at our current rate technological innovations we will not only overwhelmed by it but it could attempt to take control over humans if not looked after carefully. Blade Runner is unique in that it doesn’t just look at the benefits or side effects of technology but runs into the question at what point does a technological advancement stop being a machine and start being a living creature. Cyberpunk has the innate fear that humans will be made obsolete by technological advancements and in a world where the technology is at the point where it can produce biological machines that are smarter, stronger and more durable

“The film does not take place in a spaceship or a space station, but in a city, Los Angeles, in the year 2019, a step away from the development of contemporary society… (It is a) representation of postindustrial decay. The future does not realize an idealized aseptic technological order, but is seen simply as the development of the present state of the city and of the social order of late capitalism”. The world of LA 2019 is an unappealing one. Artificial neon light has replaced natural sunlight and the huge illuminated adverts add to the sense of disorientation. The humid streets are crowded with inhabitants who speak in a strange, yet familiar language and the frequent downpour of heavy, warm rain onto the waste-filled streets emphasize the

One of the most important functions of Terminator 2 and Blade Runner within their Science Fiction subgenre is their portrayal of ‘The Other’ or the nonhuman. In this particular case, we are talking about the Terminators and the Replicants and how they are presented in the films. The Terminators are classified as cyborgs in Terminator 2, whereas Replicants are androids which are based on Phillip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. The terms android and cyborg are completely relative to how the films present them and have a debated definition within the sci-fi community. However, the Terminators are machines that are made in the likeness of human beings. The T-101 has flesh and skin covering his machine body, whereas the T-1000

Despite having the trappings of a hard sci-fi adventure story, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is a deeply humanist and spiritual film exploring philosophical and emotional issues in a complex way (Dean, 2015). Central to this are the concepts of bravery and sacrifice: as Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and the rest of his crew take great risks and travel vast distances to save humanity from a dying Earth, the characters all display varying aspects of the human condition, especially related to these very big, complex ideas. As the characters of Interstellar go about their mission and weigh the risks and rewards of each and every decision, they each find their own definitions of bravery and sacrifice, weighing their own personal decisions against

"He never would have made a single scratch," Caleb answers. Exactly. "The trial", Nathan says, "is not to act mechanically. It's to discover an achievement that is not involuntary. From talking, to breathing, to painting." An opinion he uses to repeat that, just as Ava was "automated to be heterosexual," Caleb, too, was automated in a certain manner.

Artificial intelligence(AI) is a recent reality of technological advancement affecting human society. To analyze its effect on the workforce we will look back in history for technological disruptions and how they affected the workforce and compare and contrast to the way AI is currently impacting and will continue impacting the human workforce and other aspects of human society such as economics, politics and the general environment.

There has been little investigation of the influence society has on science fiction as a genre. However, previous research, using various methodologies, has indicated a significant relationship between science fiction and society, but much of the research focuses on the inverse of my research question: how science fiction has influenced society, instead of how society influences science fiction. Within that relationship, several different aspects of science fiction have been studied, so they are included here for context.

Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is a film largely defined by a split between human visceral drives, and mechanical narrative detachment. The film appears to privilege visceral images (including the psychedelic Stargate scene in the film’s concluding segment, “Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite”) as a means of creating an enigmatic affective experience which prompts immersion in the film. Instead, Kubrick is more concerned with providing a strong visceral experience over narrative meaning, as evidenced in his assertion that the Stargate sequence’s “meaning has to be found on a sort of visceral, psychological level rather than in a specific literal interpretation

“Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we’ll augment our intelligence” (Rometly, G.). Artificial intelligence are high-tech machines and computer systems that obtain the ability to learn human intelligence and characteristics with the imperfect data or information that people feed the computers and machines. When artificial intelligence is thought of, individuals immediately conclude that the definition of artificial intelligence are robots with human characteristics as well as other computers far more technical than ordinary everyday computers. This definition is not necessary wrong, but it is not correct either. Further defined, artificial intelligence are computer systems that are able to proceed tasks and obtain abilities that originally require human knowledge or intelligence. These abilities and tasks include speech recognition, translation of languages, quick and efficient decision making skills, environmental or global locations, and much more beyond the average level of intelligence. Even though many individuals believe artificial intelligence can enhance society, the negative effects of these high-tech computers and machines is that people could become insignificant, completely lose their positions in the workplace, and overall, this leads to the inclusive problem of artificial intelligence.