On Saturday, August 15, 2020 at 7:26:32 PM UTC-6, Russell Standish wrote: > > Alas not available on Netflix Australia. It'll have to wait until > if/when I subscribe to Amazon Prime briefly. > > I'm also not really prepared to purchase a VPN just to watch other > countries' Netflix connections, for much the same reason as I only > subscribe to one streamer - so it might have to wait until if/when I > do live in a country that has it in the Netflix catalogue. >
You can rent it here for $3.99 US. https://www.amazon.com/Ex-Machina-Alicia-Vikander/dp/B00VWPQNJ4 AG > > The tangled web of movie copyright arrangements... Bah! > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 02:23:52PM -0700, Alan Grayson wrote: > > If you haven't viewed it, please do so. It's about the Turing Test, > science > > fiction, but the "special effects" aren't primarily photographic bells > and > > whistles, but the dialogue. the text, the logic of the script. Recently, > we > > have argued about consciousness, what it is, and how we can test for it > in the > > context of AI. I claimed that we could do some superficial surgery to > determine > > whether the subject of the test was a robot or a conscious entity. But > this is > > completely mistaken. All that that would reveal is whether the subject > was > > artificial, not whether it was "conscious". The subject could have been > a black > > box, and still showing signs of what we can't really define; > consciousness. I > > think Ex Machina provides an answer of what we need to look for. Please > view it > > and report back. But do NOT read the plot, say in Wiki. It's a spoiler. > AG > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "Everything List" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email > > to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ > > everything-list/6c3c8eba-542c-45a6-a79f-ca54202fdcc8o%40googlegroups.com. > > > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] > <javascript:> > http://www.hpcoders.com.au > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/15cf709a-3f8d-4d60-b00d-e7c77e7b91a1o%40googlegroups.com.

