After viewing the film called Ex Machina, my mind has been questioning many things. The movie blurs the lines between humanity and technology. As our world becomes more technologically advanced, I wonder if an event similar to the movie could occur in the near future. I wonder how it was possible for Caleb to become attracted to Ava while knowing she was a robot. She also looked electronic on the outside. The fact that Caleb could cause Ava to feel true emotions is confusing to me also. How can real emotion be built into an artificial human or robot? How can I robot know how to feel at certain moments?
This move reminded me of the film I, Robot starring Will Smith. In that movie, robots whose bodies looked similar to Ava’s took over the world. I just hope that an event such as these do not occur in my lifetime. Even though technology is great, there should always be boundaries between technology and humanity. When people began to morph the two together, bad things could possibly occur. People were shocked when Sophia the Robot was declared a citizen by Saudi Arabia because she could carry conversations and show emotions just like a real human being. Although these creations are amazing, there has to be a downside to them.
I really appreciate these observations! There’s one question I’d like to ask – you’re curious about how can real emotion be built into a machine. If we are just machines of flesh and blood, how do we ourselves have emotions? Do we even have emotions? I made some comments near to that last question in my post, but I’d suppose that whatever mental tick makes us “uniquely human” simply doesn’t exist, and thus our emotions aren’t non-mechanical. But I’m curious what you’d say since I didn’t think to ask that question explicitly.