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Ex Machina and Social Technology

The movie Ex Machina is set in a socially interactive arena between humanoid robots and

humans. As social media sets a robotic interface between humans, Ex Machina through its

complex innovations visualizes and seeks to explore social life in a superior way compared to the

provisions of the current social engines in the technology world. Considering Bluebook, a

company that Caleb Smith works for, there is a creation of anxiety on how the search engine is

superior to real technology search engines like Google. In a snap of dialogue with the bluebook,

it reveals close to a hundred percent substantive results. It clears the search floor. Social engines

hold so much cloudy data that with the current revolution, so much is at stake with the social

media (Sahlin n.p). Nonetheless, there is much to do to get closer to Ex Machina’s Bluebook

invention by Nathan Bateman. Although, Ex Machina contextualizes the features of social media

which allow users to upload photos and follow the activities of their acquaintances, it has it’s

consequences.

Ex Machina creates an illusion on how onwards, social sites need to employ a rigid

humanoid robot, Ava, to like him so much. Caleb even thinks that Nathan might have peeped on

his pornographic preferred sites to build this model to like him. However, Nathan states that he

nested data from smartphone cameras around the globe. Technically, Nathan hacked world’s

cellphones. “Yeah. And all the manufacturers knew I was doing it, too. But they couldn't accuse

me without admitting they were doing it themselves.” (Garland n.p). Images create an emotional

impression on what is on a person’s mind at a specific time and day. By availing this kind of

randomize emotions to Ava, Nathan can track Ava’s emotional growth (Garland n.p). He

connects Ava with the real objects which trigger a human sense. Social media in this respect has

sort to hub a lot of information centrally. Pictures give social media a live feeling such that one is

likely to predict a person’s activities and the emotional attachment to these events. It’s possible

to know a person had a bad day through their images on Snapchat and Instagram. Furthermore,

viewing nice photography on social sites triggers in us the kind of feeling we have for what’s in

the photograph. Nature’s lovers do not hesitate to smile or create that amazing face on viewing a

nice nature snap.

Going on, the reason as to why Caleb wonders if Nathan might have spied on his favorite

pornographic sites unveils the kind of insecurity persons have with their personal information

and search history online. Sahlin points out that search engines map what people think. Frequent

use of the Google search engine maps what is frequently in a user’s mind. Search engines store

so much raw material which on analyses, inferences can be drawn. It is pandemic how people

know what to spy on others through the social media sites. Relationships have been falling apart

more since smartphones came along. Partners find themselves peeping on others private

conversation on Facebook and direct messages on Twitter and Instagram. While this

technological evolution is no excuse to cheat, it’s close to null and void avoiding close-end

encrypted conversations. Security is a theme of primary concern with our social media sites as

brought out in Ex Machina. Tech-innovators have found more refining approaches to prevent

embarrassing exposures through social media, but it can never be sufficient.

When Caleb is invited by his CEO to his home-turned lab to administer the Turing test,

he is excited as an experiments expert to Bluebook Company. Unknowingly Caleb is also lured

into a test by Nathan on how his creation could liaise with the human to extents of even changing

how they think and reason. This is illustrated when Nathan breaks to Caleb that the real test was

how his humanoid robot managed to convince him that he was a bad person and in return, Caleb

had helped in the plans to make Ava escape. Technology advancements have developed social

media platforms to extents that the users are being experimented on daily bases. How else would

one explain on these applications built end-to-end with Facebook, which prompts a user to find

out who they are crushing on?

Every day a person uses social sites like Facebook and Google, they add more data to the

big data. Statistically and probabilistically, more data polishes possible outcomes in the long run.

Consistency on social media update has made the user be subjected to experimental activities by

these tech-movers while social sites are guised on personalized profiles; more activities take

place behind a user’s back (Sahlin n.p). This phenomenon elucidate how Facebook can track the

majority of your friend requests and the next time you log in, they prompt you on friends you

may know, and it’s those from your home region, institution or workplace. Usually, a Facebook

user finds the advancement quite intriguing because it’s now easier to find those that you know

on Facebook with much ease. However, the big data is fast-tracking your daily endeavors, and

before you know it, all your confidentiality is reduced to nil.

Another aspect that conveys itself when Caleb is taken to spend time with his new friend,

Ava, is how technology has propagated solitude amongst users. Generations have transitioned

from the past activities that kept their bodies on the move or engaged in hyperactive events. The

millennial generation is spending most of their time on social sites actively on chats and other

still activities. As much as the approach is futuristic on lessening the hustle one had to go

through to communicate in the ancient past, it’s equitably detriment on many aspects of our

lives. May it be health wise or social wise, Caleb’s confinement in an apartment with human

robots makes him vulnerable. He advances his experimental expertise but also detriments his

human social and physical capacity.

Anxiety depicted by Nathan beckons impatience in the technological world. Nathan goes

on and alludes to Caleb “One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at

fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and

tools, all set for extinction.” (Garland n.p). Technology is impatient and anxious. The pace at

which newer software and sites updates are generated is alarming and fascinating as well.

WhatsApp among other social sites develops so fast that you have to keep your android software

at a stride. Moreover, a modification in a social software which suits its users’ needs better,

renders the previous version outdated. Advancements in the technology world have kept humans

on their toes struggling to live up to the task. Nathan features an optimistic vision on his

innovations. One tends to think that in the near future a person will comfortably survive in the

comfort of their couches with just a set of robotic creatures doing the house chores on

instruction.

Sentient creatures like Ava are far way beyond reach as technology is concerned, but

creative reactive bots like the Google voice search engine relates to us to how programs can

involve speech recognition techniques, easing the requirements to get manually on your search

engines and type information. Other social platforms like WhatsApp have made it possible to

send voice messages if one feels they cannot text. From the short messages servicing to instant

messaging and now to voice messaging is undisputedly a captivating input to social technology.

Humankind connects to social media in an attempt to fulfill therapeutic process that

involves sharing of information with other parties. Sahlin asserts that provision of avenues such

as status update box on Facebook and Twitter lures the human way of thinking that they get

therapeutic satisfaction when they express their feelings to the public, not necessarily through a

second person. Facebook makes it even easier by providing menus of common feelings and

activities. Those who cannot describe what it is that they feel can choose from a variety. How

this makes the social engine improve its artificial intelligence in understanding its client is

definite. Purer and more harmonized data improves this phenomenon.

Garland reveals that all along that Caleb is the means by which Nathan uses to evaluate

the Turing test on Ava. “Over the next few days you're going to be the human component in a

Turing test.” (Garland n.p). Ava’s artificial intelligence surpasses what conventionally would be

expected on a Turing test. Apart from the responsive part of Ava on Caleb’s queries, Ava

exhibits more profound abilities beyond the norm. Ava can reason and give contemplated

answers to Caleb. Moreover, Ava engages in a reasoning dialogue trying to persuade Caleb to

turn against Nathan. Caleb is enticed to believing the human nature of this robot which

technically was deceitful. Ava moves on to impart a sexual feeling toward Caleb. At this point,

Caleb foolishly trusts the robot in the expense of his boss. Artificial Intelligence at this level

parades how our subconscious minds work. Human weakest point is when our personalities are

an open book because anything that quiet understands that may cause immense emotional

damage. When Artificial intelligence fathoms our ways of life and a sequence of our feelings,

it’s fatal. Ex Machina’s scope sets a mind thinking about when factual technology advances to

this level of fostering deceitful convictions to a meek and fragile personality. Ava escapes to a

helicopter meant to transport Caleb at the end of the movie leaving him stuck inside the house.

Conclusively, Ex Machina demonstrates the numerous consequences of social media

including increased solitude, security and privacy concerns, anxiety, impatience and lack of

personal connections. As a revolutionary innovator, Nathan knows what best suits his

experimental client. That’s why in the first place his model resembles a beautiful lady while the

experimental expert and specimen is a man. “And for the record, Ava's not pretending to like

you. And her flirting isn't an algorithm to fake you out. You're the first man she's met that isn't

me. And I'm like her dad, right? Can you blame her for getting a crush on you?”(Garland n.p).

He provides the best environment for his experiment to thrive. Technologist knows what best

suits their clientele relative to their needs. Whenever a user’s need is met, no user affords to

repel. It’s an irresistible feeling to try something new that sorts out or simplifies a past problem.

In exchange for privacy, social media provides convenience. Still, humankind has to observe the

extents of this expediency so as not to sabotage the essence of being human. Technological

expansions ease our daily activities, yet they are detrimental to certain facets of life. Attaining a

balance is a matter of concern which tech-futurist and users need to address.

Works Cited

Garland Alex. Alex Garland of ‘Ex Machina’ Talks about Artificial Intelligence (2015).

Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/movies/alex-garland-of-ex-

machina-talks-about-artificial-intelligence.html

Garland, Alex. Ex Machina. London: Faber & Faber, 2015.

Sahlin, John P. Social Media and the Transformation of Interaction in Society. , 2015.

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