273: The Long-Term Plan Is Kill All Humans

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2015

⏱️ 81 minutes

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We tackled “Her” and “Ex Machina,” two films about artificial women and the men who love them. But while Scarlett Johansson’s Samantha wants to send a ‘Dear John’ update to all humanity, Alicia Vikander’s Ava has more in mind than pleasant dinner conversation. What do these films say about online relationships, society’s power dynamics, and tech-industry culture?

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0:32.1	The incomparable, number 273, November 2015.
0:42.2	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:44.2	I am your host, Jason Snell, and I am joined by three fellows who are going to join me in discussing all matters.
0:52.3	Well, not all matters.
0:53.2	Some matters robotic or artificially intelligent.
0:56.3	We're going to talk about two recent films with very interesting takes on the question of artificial intelligence.
1:03.1	And perhaps we'll leave some time for some tangents about other films that also have touched on these issues.
1:08.9	The two films in question on this episode,
1:12.2	2013's Spike Jones joint called her.
1:17.9	I called it a joint, even though he's not Spike Lee.
1:20.4	He's Spike Jones, because that was a reference
1:22.7	and now explaining it made it not as good.
1:24.8	And Ex Machina, a British science fiction film from this very year of
1:30.6	2015, starring a bunch of people who are in the new Star Wars movie. But anyway, joining me to talk
1:37.4	about both of these films and perhaps other robots and AI's killer and not. Brian Hamilton. Hello and welcome. Hi, I'm here.
1:46.7	I hope so. Are you here? Spike June's made a movie called I Am Here, so I guess he
1:52.9	answered that question for us. Okay. Thank you. Brian, you've confused me already, but that's
1:58.3	okay. Are you a robot or not?
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