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Who is the Villain?
Throughout the semester, we’ve seen plenty of outright villains– Proteus of Demon Seed, the Terminator of The Terminator, HAL of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and more. Almost every film, however, asks us a question– who is really the villain? Even the examples above almost beg that question, but films like Ex Machina have us debating…
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“I’ll be back”, but AI
I’d like to share this artifact of the internet that was uploaded just short of a year ago. I find it fascinating because well, 1, it’s relevant to our screening this week. Less so in the AI take-over man vs. machines sort of way, but in a more, the use of AI in Hollywood and…
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Blade Runner (1982) | Debating Consciousness, Sartre in Ridley Scott
The 82′ science-fiction now deep-rooted classic of post New-Hollywood, Blade Runner, has undoubtedly left a monumental impact on American cinematic culture which hasn’t let-up its influence well into the 21st-century; look no-further than the Dennis Villeneuve 2017 sequel to the early eighties film, Blade Runner 2049. While the movie has been held-up as a beacon…
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A.I. Ending Us, We’re Ending Ourselves
In today’s doom news, many recent developments in A.I. news are all connected to one point: money. I think these two segments, though different in title, converge at the same point. They discuss how money is always involved, and how so much money is being pumped into A.I. development when the majority of people are…
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Preparing for Ex Machina
This week we had 3 separate readings in preparation for our viewing of Alex Garland’s Ex Machina. Our first reading comes from James Bridle, chapter 6 of “The New Dark Age” titled Cognition. Bridle highlights numerous ways in which the thinking of AI systems is largely susceptible to errors, encoded biases, and the replication of…