Daily Dialogue — July 18, 2017

Nathan: So, do you know what the Turing Test is?
Caleb: Yeah. I know what the Turing Test is. It's when a human interacts with a computer and if the human doesn't know they're interacting with a computer, the test is passed.
Nathan: And what does a pass tell us?
Caleb: That the computer has artificial intelligence. [astounded] Are you building an AI?
Nathan: I've already built one.

— Ex Machina (2014), written by Alex Garland

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Scientific Explanation, suggested by Melinda Mahaffey. Today’s recommendation by Gisela Wehrl.

Trivia: Director Alex Garland has described the future presented in the film as “ten minutes from now,” meaning, “If somebody like Google or Apple announced tomorrow that they had made Ava, we would all be surprised, but we wouldn’t be that surprised.”

Dialogue On Dialogue: The penny drops here for Caleb as he connects the A.I. dots of what Nathan is up to.