„Why did you make Ava?“
„That’s an odd question. Wouldn’t you, if you could?“
„Maybe. I don’t know. I’m asking why you did it.“
„Look, the arrival of strong artificial intelligence has been inevitable for decades. The variable was ‚when,‘ not ‚if.‘ So I don’t see Ava as a decision, just an evolution.
I think it’s the next model that’s gonna be the real breakthrough. The singularity.“
„Next model?“
„After Ava.“
„I didn’t know there was gonna be a model after Ava.“
„Yeah, why? You thought she was a one-off?“
„No, I knew there must have been prototypes. So I … I knew she wasn’t the first, but I thought maybe the last.“
„Well, Ava doesn’t exist in isolation any more than you or me. She’s part of a continuum. So Version 9.6 and so on. And each time they get a little bit better.“
„When you make a new model, what do you do with the old one?“
„Well, I, uh, download the mind, unpack the data. Add in the new routines I’ve been writing. And to do that you end up partially formatting, so the memories go. But the body survives. And Ava’s body is a good one. You feel bad for Ava? Feel bad for yourself, man.
One day the AIs are gonna look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons in the plains of Africa. An upright ape, living in dust, with crude language and tools. All set for extinction.“
„I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.“
„There you go again, Mr. Quotable.“
„There you go again. It’s not my quote. It’s what Oppenheimer said after he made the atomic bomb.“
Ex Machina (2015)