10 years ago, the movie ‘Ex Machina’ posed a new question in Hollywood: What if you thought of artificial intelligence as a woman? The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche began “Beyond Good and ...

When remarking on Ava’s gender at an Ex Machina screening in San Francisco, Garland made a point of saying that Ava is “female-presenting,” not simply female. While the body given to her in the movie ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Turing test is something with which we will all become even more familiar in the next few years given the rapid improvement in ...

In the current cinema landscape, the concept of artificial intelligence (and its dangerous potential) continues to captivate audiences and creators alike. Something specifically explored in the 2014 ...

In the future, how will we tell if a robot has human-level intelligence? For decades, the litmus test of choice was the Turing Test, which asks: can a computer program fool one in three judges into ...

Cinema has always been fascinated by androids. From “Metropolis” to “Blade Runner,” the juxtaposition of humans next to their artificial form has provided endless hours of stories that can be as ...

Programmer Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) wins a lottery at work, and a helicopter whisks him away to an isolated compound in the mountains. Here, Caleb will spend a week with Nathan (Oscar Isaac), genius ...

Alex Garland has an inspired mind for the beginning and middle of end-times. A novelist turned screenwriter and now director, he’s consistently mined the premise of a collapse – of infrastructure, the ...