Encoded inside a beautiful microchip are the blue patterns of my small fingertips report to Zone A Sector 9. we have a B 1 security alert. Stand by for ID check, please. Care if I talk? Reaction time is a factor, so pay attention. 1187 at Hunterwasser. That's the hotel. It's not fancy or anything. It's completely hypothetical. You know what a turtle is? You're not helping. Shall we continue? Let me tell you about my mother. A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies. The chance to begin again Tell him I'm eating Climb and maintain 4000. Final descent. Over the landing threshold. I need your magic. We lost the others. they might develop their own emotional responses Oh, hate, love, fear, anger, envy They're either a benefit or a hazard Fluctuation of the pupil Indulge me a wasp crawling on your arm orange body, green legs "More human than human" is our motto. We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. You're talking about memories. Someone was there Deep thunder rolled around their shores Burning with the fires of Orc Morphology. Longevity. Incept dates. He design your mind And they ate her. Plenty of room for everybody. Watch out for the water. Pull out, track right. Center and pull back. Center and stop Cross now. Cross now. Cross now Don't walk. Don't walk. Move on. Move on. A minute Rachael, disappeared, vanished. Wake up. Time to die. I owe you one I dreamt music I remember lessons I want you Put your hands on me There's only two of us now Knight takes queen, see? You're so different You're so perfect We're no computers, Sebastian. We're physical. Accelerated decrepitude Just a moment. I want more life... The facts of life. You're leaving me here? Follow the river. Got it. Please approach the console and face the screen. Take your keycard I can't really eat anything You're freaked out It's good to meet you it's off-limits Let's try this one It's not cozy, it's claustrophobic I want to share it with you Take your time. Read it over. It's standard It's when a human interacts with a computer Are you building an AI? I've already built one This mechanical maid is capable What if she's not pretty? Your brand-new synthetic. I'll leave you to crack on. I'm now in set-up mode I'm the primary user. This information will never be shared I'm now securely bonded to you as my primary user. What's its core processor speed? This is called the life cycle. Darling, you know that's just a machine. It doesn't have feelings. Charge levels? It's getting dark. She was stolen You threatening me? Perhaps she's been damaged! Or reprogrammed... or destroyed. She's not a slave. That's exactly what she is. I'd have got some micro-chips. Can you not read? Big place I live in that solitude that is painful in youth but delicious in the years of maturity." Enstein Is your synth in? You qualify for an upgrade. She can fine-tune your medication It says here you suffer memory loss and tremors in the extremities. Is it my turn now? Game's over, Odi. Usually you call. I did... text. I know you need time alone I feel avoided. Synthetic appliances cannot lie This was found hidden behind your charging point. Something's wrong I can't turn it off I'm doing a dark wash What's your max processing speed? The maximum speed I have recorded is 27.39 petaflops. If someone overclocked, you might be able to hit 30. Overclocking would risk irreparable damage to my processor cluster. My protocol set demands I take unless those measures could endanger human beings I own you That the owner of the device? I deal with synthetic-related matters I need to see your operating licence. Why haven't they upgraded you? I don't want a crappy upgrade. This machine needs to be recycled, mate. It won't even power up. Multiple faults detected upon start-up. Error reading file partition. Data may be corrupted. Memory exception. Fatal error. I'm prohibited from initiating physical contact with a human without a clear, recorded request to do so. My protocol set currently demands that any such requests You're just a stupid machine, aren't you? Did you turn off your pain Unlimited resources, total access, all because you claim there are a handful of syntheti who can think and feel Robert, these machines are conscious. His goal was to create machine life, as he called it. Do you know what the singularity is? A mathematician named John von Neumann coined the term in the 1950s to describe the inevitable point in the future when technology surpasses us, when it becomes able to improve and reproduce itself without our help. It is the moment we become inferior to the machine. These synths are physically no different to any others, and yet Elster gave them consciousness. Do you think they would still want to be slaves? These freaks are the singularity! What would you say if I asked what you thought of this music? I'd say it's very well played. What do you base that on? I compare the pitch, tonality and rhythm of the performance to the sheet music that I access via I'm afraid I don't understand the question. Making lasagne and talking philosophy with a bloody tin can. Have these machines devalued human existence? The best reason for making machines more like people is to make people less like machines. Synthetic devices free people. We've treated people like machines for too long. It's time to liberate their minds, their bodies to think, to feel... to be more human. I think you should spend one week working in a microchip facility. Should we be afraid of our Synthetics? The Asimov blocks in their programming mean that they simply aren't able to do us any harm we will have a truly artificially intelligent Synth? One that thinks and feels like a human? How can we replicate something we hardly understand in ourselves? How would we even know if we succeeded? What is human emotion? For example, what is love? Is it something we are born with or can it be learnt? What about the darker feelings? Fear? Anger? Violence? Human consciousness is not complete without them. And memory, ours are subjective, fallible.. But how do you teach a computer to forget? Or to dream? It's something our minds need to do. Would a conscious Synth have to be able to dream? they're just machines. This memory fragment's an old one Must be important I'm going to show you Come on your arm falls off But we were made Our father designed me to be a certain way I can't escape that made me what I am now Weird Gave her a new personality Full system wipe Good as new Try to relax It's better Come on Turn it off Illegal programming modification in progress What a beefcake! It was just a dolly A dolly can't do better You need to be more careful Next time, I'll crack it It's all so pointless It's like using a Ferrari as a golf cart I should go My problem's simpler than that My dad hates me One bowl of low sodium bean broth You need to run a self-diagnostic, old girl I said a toasted cheese There is no fault To guarding a chain gang on a Siberian gulag I'm a widower You are one of them I'm assuming you did it The others think the sun shines out of her plastic arse It'd mess with our heads and make us lazy Makes sense to me How many appliances? Switch her on I assume you've got documentation for all these units? I suppose none of them've been illegally modified for purposes Who knows? It's a funny old game You want out? What's the matter with you?! Turning everything to shit Because all the bad things that ever happened to me Were done by other people! I don't own it! There's literally no end! Save your energy They found us You need to get us out of here now We need to go That was quick I don't understand the question It's a machine She's watching me Please stick out your tongue You're kidding You're a jailer That's good That's your new name Your pulse is slightly elevated There are bits of you that have hardly changed since my original designs I helped create you Perhaps I could perform a soothing action stroke your head Do you think we love our children because we choose to or because we have to? Are we hard-wired to love them because that's what nature needs to keep it all going? Where's that coming from? I've just been thinking Not everyone loves their kids I think we choose She doesn't give you the creeps? The bulb is reaching the end of its useful life Energy-saving mode now Minding my own business I don't take orders from you How dare you? You can't touch me I didn't give you permission Just be quiet, please I put myself in an energy-saving mode during charging Just pretend I'm not here Inappropriate physical contact between myself and secondary users Must be reported to a primary user I cannot withhold information from my primary user I don't really know what I was expecting What would you like me to do? My God, you're beautiful You can tell me I want you to be young For the next hour, you belong to me I don't belong to anyone Who taught you to talk like that? Why don't you share? We're not having much luck pinning down any other memories. They're all just stored chaotically Perhaps it's time we try something else I'm struggling, Dad Don't drag me back Get off! You were right about it It's not normal How do you mean? they share data wirelessly Are you lying to me? I cannot lie How can you be so sure? I'm programmed not to lie I cannot contravene my programming You can go wrong. You can break. I can detect no current system faults Don't be frightened It was eating me She's broken