"Turing Test" Explained In First Clip From Alex Garland's EX MACHINA
Dredd and 28 Days Later screenwriter Alex Garland makes his directorial debut with the science-fiction film, Ex Machina. Come see Star Wars: The Force Awakens actors, Oscar Isaac and Domhall Gleeson, in the first clip.
I gotta be honest, I hope I'm not around when a computer passes the Turing Test. For those of you that don't know, or are too lazy to watch the video below, the Turing Test is "a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human." It was designed by Alan Turing, the British mathematician that helped the Allies win World War II by breaking the German ciphers. Some of you are familiar with him because of the new movie Imitation Game, which features Benedict Cumberbatch ("Sherlock") as Turing. Now, go check out the clip below.
Ex Machina hits UK theatres on January 23, and opens in the US on April 25.
Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test – charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated, seductive––and more deceptive––than the two men could have imagined.