Pretty good start - lame ending - low tech for an AI geek

Rating: 6/10 (4 August 2017)

Fun and intriguing at times, but doesn't meet its goal if you're tech savvy. Nathan, the protagonist and developer of Ava the AI robot, was supposed to be the world's smartest programmer. I don't think so. The Turing test applied by supporting actor Caleb to determine if Ava is a true AI has questions and answers that are straight out of the oldest known AI program - Eliza - which I enjoyed in the mid-1960s, and was fun to customize. The introduction was pretty cool. Nice looking bot but acted like a marionette. Good dancing. Great Norwegian scenery. This movie deserves a remake. My wife thinks they ran out of money. This isn't a movie for computer AI geeks. Here's why: Nathan was supposed to be capable of hacking but he didn't appear to know the first thing about hacking, including not being hacked, tracking and not being tracked. Nathan couldn't manage his network - from start to finish. Nathan's security used key cards without any bio-metrics - what are we to think? 1940s? Nathan had entries and exits that didn't have tracking - physical access was allowed - are they kidding? Nathan allowed multiple power failures that weren't controlled - a geek who allows his connection to go down simply isn't a geek - come on - my grid and solar powered home has millisecond switch-over battery back-up. Robots that whisper to each other - really quietly I presume is somehow unheard - come on. Robots that kill with a knife? I can only suppose they are the image of their low tech creator who couldn't stop a bot with a steel bar - or even disassemble his robot? Nathan didn't program the first law of robotics? Isaac Asimov 1942: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. What year is this? Caleb, friend to Ava the bot, claims Ava is a true AI - but Ava is a failure of the Turing test at the least because Ava didn't keep her man. At the end of the movie, Ava goes off to a street corner to observe people? How sweet.