Ex Machina

Fable Studio founder Edward Saatchi on designing virtual beings

In films, TV shows and books — and even in video games where characters are designed to respond to user behavior — we don’t perceive characters as beings with whom we can establish two-way relat

Shadows’ Dylan Flinn and Kombo’s Kevin Gould on the business of ‘virtual influencers’

In films, TV shows and books — and even in video games where characters are designed to respond to user behavior — we don’t perceive characters as beings with whom we can establish two-way relat

Compound’s Mike Dempsey on virtual influencers and AI characters

In films, TV shows and books — and even in video games where characters are designed to respond to user behavior — we don’t perceive characters as beings with whom we can establish two-way r

Ex Machina’s Stars Talk About Cinematic Robots And “Bro Billionaires”

A new science fiction movie called <em>Ex Machina</em> opens today — it's a tense, thought-provoking story, and one that may be particularly interesting to TechCrunch readers for its depiction of ar

Ex Machina Director Alex Garland Talks Artificial Intelligence And His Unsettling Robot Ava

If you were looking for love in Austin this weekend, you might have run into Ava — <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/15/marketers-tricked-sxsw-tinder-users-with-a-chatbot/">a chatbot on Tinder