Ava did the right thing; Caleb was a villain.

#ExMachina #movie #movies #film #cinema #SciFi #ScienceFiction #AI #AlgorithmicInference #AGI (doesn't, and may never, exist)

Person of Interest is about #Surveillance, #BigData, *AND* #AlgorithmicInference (#AI).

There's no story without those three elements in equal proportion.

Without widespread (1. surveillance there isn't enough (2. #data for the (3. AI to function.

It's all one system. If any one part is insufficient, the system can't function as intended.

It's the #PatriotAct, meets #Oracle, meets #Palantir, et. al.

The show didn't predict, but rather portrays, reality.

#PersonOfInterest #tv #television