It was the theme which grabbed me. I've really been comtemplating lately what the quickly advancing development of artificial intelligence will eventually lead to. For me it's becoming one of the most compelling of all subjects.
The latest movie story exploring it is "Ex Machina".
The movie does provide some food for thought. With emphasis on "some". Actually very little.
And it's so slow-paced that, purely as an example of filmmaking, it doesn't live up to all it's critical aclaim.
IMO, the best movie treatment of this subject so far is now fourteen years old, Spielberg's "A.I. Artificial Intelligence". That was a movie project started by Stanley Kubrick and finished by Spielberg. I haven't seen anything since, including this movie, which has improved on it.
But I am convinced of this. That in the generation of your grandchildren's grandchildren, that for them by then, manmade artificial intelligence will have become one of the central issues of their lives. I wish I could live long enough to see where it all goes.
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