Ex Machina, Our Lives in A.I.

The other day I got around to watching the 2015 Alex Garland debut sci-fi thriller, Ex Machina. Without spoiling too much of the plot of the film, it got me to thinking about the different aspects of artificial intelligence. The idea that an A.I. unit having the potential to service the needs of a particular individual is something that is both an exciting, yet a strangely terrifying prospect. The concept of artificial intelligence is nothing new in science fiction literature and films. It's just that some of the aspects of A.I. can be observed in our society today.