The movie Ex Machina tends viewers to question who knows what, who's outsmarting who and what - or who - is real, perceived or imagined, holding its audience in a controlled suspense throughout the movie till the end.
Caleb, a young and intelligent coder working for Bluebook, which is the world's most popular Internet search engine is chosen as the winner of a week visit to the remote estate and research facility of Bluebook's CEO, Nathan, a technology titan and prodigy who began writing code at the age of thirteen.
Caleb is assigned the task of performing the Turing Test by conducting a series of interviews to determine whether the female robot named Ava created by Nathan demonstrates true AI. That is, Caleb is to ensure whether Ava can think and feel for herself, or whether she is simply simulating human emotion. …show more content…
That is to determine if Ava has consciousness.
At the first sight, we get a little doubt whether Ava exhibits qualities similar to human since she is designed with a humanoid face, her hands and feet are attached to a half-transparent, and half-mesh body structure. We are able to realize how advanced AI Ava is at each interview session. She challenges Caleb to reveal more of himself since a one-sided conversation is not the foundation upon which a friendship is built and throwing some of his words back at