When subjected to scrutiny, however, these results were found to be invalid.
Since it was developed, there have been claims of several AI experiments that have successfully passed the Turing test. A machine is deemed sentient if it manages to convince the human that it's also a person that it can "think." Of course, they're both well aware that the Turing test alone won't be enough.Īs originally conceived, the Turing test involves a natural language conversation between a machine and human conducted through typed messages from separate rooms. Nathan, who is equal parts startup bro, Steve Jobs and Larry Page and all with a megalomaniacal bent, arrives with an intriguing dilemma: He's developed an artificially intelligent robot named Ava (Alicia Vikander) and he wants Caleb to prove she has a consciousness of her own. A nebbish programmer, Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), wins a Willy Wonka-esque contest to spend a week with Nathan (Oscar Isaac), the reclusive genius CEO of his company - a search giant called BlueBook. And, like the films 2001 and Primer, it's a work of science fiction that might end up giving you a case of philosophical whiplash.Įx Machina is constructed like a morality play. Ex Machina isn't the first film to expose the limits of the Turing test, but it's by far one of the most successful.
But, given just how easy it is to trick, as well as the existence of more rigorous alternatives for proving consciousness, passing a test developed in the '50s isn't much of a feat to AI researchers today. You've likely heard of it - developed by legendary computer scientist Alan Turing (recently featured in The Imitation Game), it's a test meant to prove artificial intelligence in machines. With Ex Machina, the directorial debut of 28 Days Later and Sunshine writer Alex Garland, we can finally put the Turing test to rest.
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