https://vo.rs/tags/turing-test/Latest from the Turing Test desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sat, 14 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/ex-machina-the-turing-test-as-a-chamber-thriller/<p>Alex Garland had written novels and screenplays for years before he directed anything, and it shows in <em>Ex Machina</em>, his 2014 debut, which moves with the confidence of someone who has been thinking about this exact story for a very long time. It is a science-fiction film with almost no science-fiction furniture — no city, no crowds, no future skyline. Four characters, one remote house, and a question that gets quietly nastier the longer you sit with it: when a machine convinces you it is a person, who exactly has passed the test, and who has failed?</p>Sat, 14 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000