The movie Brooklyn, based on the book by Colm Tóibín and adapted here by fellow novelist Nick Hornby, is a rarity: a totally straight-faced tale free of irony and modern trappings. (more…)

The movie Brooklyn, based on the book by Colm Tóibín and adapted here by fellow novelist Nick Hornby, is a rarity: a totally straight-faced tale free of irony and modern trappings. (more…)
Ex Machina hinges on the Turing test, an idea which states that a machine has true artificial intelligence when its answers are reasonably similar to how a human would respond. In other words, once a machine’s conversational responses can fool a human, that machine has essentially achieved AI – what some would call a soul. (more…)