Ex Machina, released in 2015 and now available on DVD and BluRay, may be the best movie about artificial intelligence to come along in years.  It gives an outstanding portrayal of a possible A.I. revolution in all of its ethical and philosophical dimensions, not to mention what it might actually look like.  What I found to be one of the many excellent themes to the movie is how it examines that question as to what is real and what is not with the emerging A.I. technologies. It shows how the line between the two are becoming blurred and what will happen once that line is destroyed forever.  The movie displays in an underlying narrative the role humans are playing in their possible slow-motion suicide by playing God with technology through the advancing sophistication of artificial intelligence. Nathan, played by Oscar Isaac, is an ultra-wealthy man who made his billions by creating a search engine called Blue Book (think Sergey Brin or Larry Page of Google). ...(Read Full Post)