Ex Machina is a 2015 independent Great Britain science
fiction movie directed by Alex Garland and produce by Andrew Macdonald and
Allon Reich. This movie tells about Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) wins a ticket to
the secret research facility owned by Nathan (Oscar Isaac). Nathan is the owner
of search engine company called Blue Book, where Caleb works for as a
programmer. Nathan tells Caleb that he made a robot with Artificial Intelligence
and the robot look like human. The robot is called Ava (Alicia Vikander). Caleb
is assigned to do a Turing test to Ava.
Turing Test is held to test whether Ava could interact with Caleb
just like a normal human’s interaction or not. After the first meeting with
Ava, Caleb wondering why he need to do the Turing test face to face with Ava, because
it makes him feel like he is interacting with robot. But Nathan have a
different perspective, he think that by showing the real form of Ava, will
Caleb still think that Ava is a robot with all the intelligence that Ava had
that look like a human.
After several meetings with Ava, Caleb realizes that he has a
feeling for Ava, and he thinks Ava has the same feeling as him. Ava starts to
tell something about Nathan and his laboratory to Caleb. It changes Caleb’s view
of Nathan and his laboratory so he decides to help Ava to escape from Nathan’s laboratory.
They make a plan to escape, but before they execute the plan, Nathan tells
Caleb that he knows about the plan and gives explanation about the situation
and suggest Caleb not to trust Ava. After that conversation Caleb is regretting
that he had trusted Ava. At the end of the stories, it have a plot twist that I
didn’t expect.
This movie gives information about Artificial Intelligence,
which represent with a robot that has artificial intelligence that makes it
could interact like human. How Ava can speak, change expression, act like a
human with a help from Artificial Intelligence. And this movie have a Human Computer Interaction, like face
recognizer when Caleb make an ID Card to enter the house, voice recognizer to
turn off the light, sensors to turn on the light when there is a movement,
interaction between Ava and Caleb, and interaction between Kyoko and Caleb or
Kyoko and Nathan even though the interaction is not as perfect as interaction
between Ava and Caleb. Also this movie remind us to not make something that
above human intelligence, because it can be a harm for the human itself.
