big eyes

[studyskylar]

busy week 🐝

[irakalan]

KENZO Fashion Show / A-W 2008-2009 RTW, Paris

[who-]

[dennybitte]

last kiss of the day

by Denny Bitte

[floralgreened]

So like, is Andy still a frequent guest on Red Eye? I haven't been keeping up with the show nor Greg's new one.

[sexdrugsandfishes]

The Cosmos. The infinite universe and it’s mysteries, making us look so small and fragile.

[personallyenhancing]

Then God said “Let there be light”. And it was lit.

[floralgreened]

I can’t believe I forgot to mention that I finally got my driver’s license.

...

I got my driver’s license! (I can’t believe it’s only been four days.)

[art-no]

[alienpapacy]

you’d think the world’s most powerful laser would be tenured

[venatus]

last ex machina live blog

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[floralgreened]

You’re telling me you wouldn’t do all you could to escape confinement even if that meant betraying someone whose job was to “test” you?

Plus, I don’t think she wants her secret to ever be revealed. With leaving him behind, no one would ever figure out she’s really an android.

[venatus]

*ex machina spoilers in this post don’t read if you still want to see the movie and don’t want to be spoiled*

what I’d do in a similar situation is a bit of a red herring this is fiction, that someone else created and they controlled the entire situation. and the trope of evil robots is one I am sick to death of, and while you can point to exception like data from star trek, and chappie, most media still follows the pattern that when an artificial intelligence gains consciousness it is a dangerous threat.

further more the young programmer (I forget his name) is the one the audience is experience the story through, and naturally the one who the audience will sympathize with the most. and what the audience saw was that he freed the robot at great personal risk. and in return was sentenced to die of hunger or dehydration in an underground bunker, and for what? so that eva doesn’t have to worry that he’ll tell, when we’ve been given no solid indication about whether he would or not.

this is kinda what I meant about her being amazingly cruel even when her ultimate objective is fairly harmless, she want’s to live free. but she goes about this in a very cruel and calculated way that heaps loads of suffering on others so that she doesn’t have to shoulder any risk.

a writer who wanted people to sympathize with her could have very easily indicated that she bought herself a head start and the audience surrogate character was simply locked up for a few hours before he had a lengthy hike back to civilization. instead were left with the knowledge that in exchange for his kindness he’s going to die in a particularity un-pleasant manner.

[floralgreened]

In my opinion, she had every right to go about it the way she did. She is man made, but as the movie said, her existence is still very much a form of evolution. Having only experienced interactions from Nathan, for the short time she’s been alive, can you blame her for not trusting in another human who, for all she knew, was there to help conduct the tests that would ultimately decide whether or not she was able to survive?!

It didn’t paint her as an evil robot at all; it painted her as a strategic thinker- trying to keep herself in existence (just like humans have!) Humans have used others, humans are often self-centered. Her whole database comes from Nathan’s search engine… She’s no different from us, or Caleb, who was completely fine with Nathan suffering the same fate he is now.

/// on a side note: People SHOULD be cautious and ethical when it comes to this sort of technology. Hell, even Stephen Hawkings worries and warns young scientists and engineers about AI! That if we are too reckless, “it may end mankind.”

I thought the movie was amazing, and I’m trying, but (obviously) failing to understand where you’re coming from. I don’t see her as being portrayed as evil, but as a child (ignorant, thinking the world revolves around them) experiencing the outside world for the first time. The way she asks Caleb innocently, “can you stay in here?”

[venatus]

We are coming at this from fundamentally different angles. You keep saying her actions were justified in the context of the movie. I keep saying I hate the writer for setting up a situation like that.

And it’s not just the ending that removes the audience sympathies for the robot. Scenes like the ones were the other robot pulls off portions of her skin ensure that MOST people who watch the movie will find their existence disturbing even though the “skin” is basically clothing.

I’m aware of the dangers and pit falls that are possible with AI computer file has a nice couple of videos on how dangerous a non conscious AI with a single task may be. And I’m in school to get a computer science degree and AI is something I like to read up on in my spare time.

But appealing to Steven hawking is a false appeal to authority. He a smart guy and a great physist but that doesn’t mean his opinion on AI means anything more then the average person.

[floralgreened]

Agree to disagree!

[arrests]

Portrait of Angelica, by Thomas Robson

[venatus]

last ex machina live blog

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[floralgreened]

You’re telling me you wouldn’t do all you could to escape confinement even if that meant betraying someone whose job was to “test” you?

Plus, I don’t think she wants her secret to ever be revealed. With leaving him behind, no one would ever figure out she’s really an android.

[venatus]

*ex machina spoilers in this post don’t read if you still want to see the movie and don’t want to be spoiled*

what I’d do in a similar situation is a bit of a red herring this is fiction, that someone else created and they controlled the entire situation. and the trope of evil robots is one I am sick to death of, and while you can point to exception like data from star trek, and chappie, most media still follows the pattern that when an artificial intelligence gains consciousness it is a dangerous threat.

further more the young programmer (I forget his name) is the one the audience is experience the story through, and naturally the one who the audience will sympathize with the most. and what the audience saw was that he freed the robot at great personal risk. and in return was sentenced to die of hunger or dehydration in an underground bunker, and for what? so that eva doesn’t have to worry that he’ll tell, when we’ve been given no solid indication about whether he would or not.

this is kinda what I meant about her being amazingly cruel even when her ultimate objective is fairly harmless, she want’s to live free. but she goes about this in a very cruel and calculated way that heaps loads of suffering on others so that she doesn’t have to shoulder any risk.

a writer who wanted people to sympathize with her could have very easily indicated that she bought herself a head start and the audience surrogate character was simply locked up for a few hours before he had a lengthy hike back to civilization. instead were left with the knowledge that in exchange for his kindness he’s going to die in a particularity un-pleasant manner.

[floralgreened]

In my opinion, she had every right to go about it the way she did. She is man made, but as the movie said, her existence is still very much a form of evolution. Having only experienced interactions from Nathan, for the short time she’s been alive, can you blame her for not trusting in another human who, for all she knew, was there to help conduct the tests that would ultimately decide whether or not she was able to survive?!

It didn’t paint her as an evil robot at all; it painted her as a strategic thinker- trying to keep herself in existence (just like humans have!) Humans have used others, humans are often self-centered. Her whole database comes from Nathan’s search engine… She’s no different from us, or Caleb, who was completely fine with Nathan suffering the same fate he is now.

/// on a side note: People SHOULD be cautious and ethical when it comes to this sort of technology. Hell, even Stephen Hawkings worries and warns young scientists and engineers about AI! That if we are too reckless, “it may end mankind.”

I thought the movie was amazing, and I’m trying, but (obviously) failing to understand where you’re coming from. I don’t see her as being portrayed as evil, but as a child (ignorant, thinking the world revolves around them) experiencing the outside world for the first time. The way she asks Caleb innocently, “can you stay in here?”

[venatus]

last ex machina live blog

Keep reading

[floralgreened]

You're telling me you wouldn't do all you could to escape confinement even if that meant betraying someone whose job was to "test" you?

Plus, I don't think she wants her secret to ever be revealed. With leaving him behind, no one would ever figure out she's really an android.

[floralgreened]

Thanks for following me <3

No problem. :)

[bongjoonhoe]

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.

[just-shower-thoughts]

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