SXSW Q&A with Cast and Crew of 'Ex Machina' Page #5

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so f***ing clumsy

that she spills wine

over my house guest.

I think she gets

that you're pissed.

Yeah? Good.

Because I am pissed.

Hey, Kyoko.

Go-go.

It's funny.

You know.

No matter how rich you get,

sh*t goes wrong.

You can't insulate yourself from it.

I used to think it was death

and taxes you couldn't avoid,

but it's actually

death and sh*t.

It's like these power cuts.

You would not believe how much I

spent on the generator system,

but I keep getting

failures every day.

Do you know why they happen?

No.

The system was supposed

to be bulletproof,

but obviously the guys that

installed it f***ed something up.

Can't you just get them

to come back?

No. There's too much

classified stuff here.

So after the job was done,

I just had them all killed.

Anyway.

Here's to your

second day, buddy.

Cheers.

Cheers.

So how did it go?

What do you have to report?

You saw how the day went,

didn't you?

I mean, I assume you're, uh,

watching on the CCTV.

Sure. But I want to

hear your take on it.

Yeah, there was one interesting

thing that happened with Ava today.

Yeah?

Yeah.

She made a joke.

Right. When she threw your

line back at you.

About being interested

to see what she'd choose.

Yeah, I noticed that, too.

Yeah, and it got me

thinking, it's, uh...

In a way,

it's the best indication of AI

that I've seen in her so far.

It's discretely complicated.

It's like, um...

It's kind of non-autistic.

What do you mean?

She could only do that

with an awareness

of her own mind,

and also an awareness of mine.

Oh, she's aware of you all right.

And what about the power cut?

Sorry?

The power cut.

It's the only part

that I couldn't see.

Cameras fail,

I lose audio, the works.

So what happened?

Nothing.

Nothing? She didn't

remark on it at all?

No.

Not really.

Oh.

Hey.

Hey.

You want to see something cool?

This is where Ava was created.

Go ahead.

Take a look.

Sorry.

If you knew the trouble I had

getting an AI to read and

duplicate facial expressions.

You know how I cracked it?

I don't know

how you did any of this.

Every cell phone, just about,

has a microphone,

camera and a means to transmit data.

So I turned on every

microphone and camera

across the entire f***ing planet

and I redirected the data

through Blue Book. Boom!

Limitless resource of vocal

and facial interaction.

You hacked

the world's cell phones?

Yeah. And all the manufacturers

knew I was doing it, too.

But they couldn't accuse me

without admitting they

were doing it themselves.

Here,

we have her mind.

Structured gel.

I had to get away

from circuitry.

I needed something that could

arrange and rearrange

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