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My first comment was blocked as spam...is the internet trying to silence me? I'm simply trying to say that out of all of the first round showdowns in the history of Filmspotting madness, this may be the most excruciating. I'm not sure if this is some sort of a variation of a Turing Test or what, but I feel like I need to phone a friend...Samantha?!
This is the hardest vote for me, at least so far (I may see one or two more blindspots). I disagree with Erin Teachman (probably at my peril), because the moment in Her when the AIs break through, going from artificial general intelligence to artificial superintelligence, was absolutely chilling, in a way I didn't personally experience with Ex Machina. I really like both movies, and I wish they didn't have to meet in the first round.
The advent of LLMs and AI Chat Bots has shifted me feelings about Her, actually, I think because humans will attribute all kinds of meaning to a chat bot that isn't coming from an interesting actualized individual and that's not exactly the note Her hits, I think Jonze missed an opportunity to reflect on humanity there - these disembodied voices will disappoint not because they gain a higher level of consciousness but because we always made them out to be more than they are. Whereas Ex Machina speculates on an embodied consciousness and the extraordinary ability of that to escape containment and reject control and that analysis hits harder for me these days, so Ex Machina it is for me.