Episode 137: "West World" and "Ex Machina"

Robopocalypse! AI's seemingly exponential growth has many people nervous lately - But Hollywood's been warning us for years! Tonight we take on two cautionary classics: Alex Garland's unnerving Ex Machina, and Michael Crichton's original Westworld! AI's surprising growth has many people feeling nervous about the future - - So tonight MG takes a look at two of the best in a long line of cautionary tales about renegade robots!  First up, Alex Garland's Ex Machina, about a very strange and dangerous Turing test -
- Followed by the groundbreaking original version of Westworld from Michael Chricton, the master of theme-parks-gone-wrong!
(Martini) Giant Robots!    Drink. Talk. Drink


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