Saturday, April 23, 2016

Thoughts on Ex Machina and Other Robot-ey Things by Marissa Bavaro


              Even though I had never seen this movie before, I knew how it was going to end when I first started watching it. It's so typical sci-fi movie-- even though many people think it's a realistic interpretation of our future-- the genius creates a super smart robot and everyone thinks its going to be so great because it's so smart and can do so many things to make human lives easier and better in some way, but then the robot gets too smart and tries taking over the world. That's not exactly the storyline of this movie and other sci-fi, but it pretty much is in a nutshell. This may be a funny comparison but the Disney Channel movie Smart House was like the same thing. It was a really "smart house" that would turn on the lights for you and cook you dinner, do laundry, and make day-to-day life better but it ended up turning evil and locking the family inside the house and the only way they could get it to stop was by telling the house that it wasn't real and was never going to be human. I guess the whole thing about the robots is that they resent humans because they aren't one and never will be one.
             I think this "evil take over" is definitely a possibility in real life, and the only way to prevent it in my opinion is to not try to make robots that are so close to humans. They shouldn't be realistic or compared to humans in any way; sort of like the robots in Star Wars-- BB-8 is my favorite! Even CP30 has similarities to humans but he's definitely not as close as Ana in Ex Machina.

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