Ex Machina (2014) - full transcript

Caleb, a 26 year old programmer at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

How long until

we get to his estate?

(LAUGHING)

We've been flying

over his estate

for the past two hours.

You're leaving me here?

This is as close

as I'm allowed

to get to the building.

What building?

Follow the river.

Got it.

Keep your head down

and get clear

of the rotors.

Okay.

FEMALE AUTOMATED VOICE:

Caleb Smith.

Yes.

Please approach the console

and face the screen.

(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

Oh!

Take your keycard.

You may now

enter the residence.

(CHIMES)

(DOOR UNLOCKS)

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

Hello?

Hello?

(SIGHS)

(THUDDING)

(MAN GRUNTING)

(CHAIN RATTLING)

(PANTING)

Caleb Smith.

Hey.

Dude!

I've been

so looking forward

to this week with you.

Come in. Come on in.

Thanks.

You want something

to eat or drink

after yourjourney?

No. No, thanks,

I'm fine.

Sure?

Yeah.

To be honest,

I thought we'd have, uh,

breakfast together,

but, um...

I can't really

eat anything.

I got the mother

of all fucking hangovers.

Oh, yeah?

Oh, my God, like you

wouldn't even believe.

When I have

a heavy night,

l, uh, compensate

the next morning.

Exercise. Anti-oxidants.

You know?

Yeah, sure.

Was it a good party?

Party?

Yeah. Wasn't there a party?

There wasn't a party.

Sorry.

Caleb, l'mjust gonna

throw this out there,

so it's said, okay?

You're freaked out.

I am?

Yeah.

You're freaked out,

by the helicopter

and the mountains

and the house,

because it's all

so super-cool.

You're freaked out by me,

to be meeting me,

having this conversation

in this room,

at this moment. Right?

And I get that.

I get the moment

you're having, but...

Dude, can we just

get past that?

Can we just be two guys?

Nathan and Caleb.

Not the whole

employer-employee thing.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah?

Yes. Uh, yeah.

It's good to

meet you, Nathan.

(CLAPS HANDS)

It's good to

meet you, too, Caleb.

I guess the first thing

I should do is

explain your pass.

Now, it's simple enough.

It opens some doors

and it doesn't open others.

And thatjust makes

everything easy

for you, right?

Uh, yes.

Yeah, 'cause you're like,

"Oh, fuck, I'm in

someone else's house.

"Can I do this,

can I do that?"

And this card,

it just takes

all that worry away.

If you try a door

and it stays shut,

okay, it's off-limits.

You try another door

and it opens,

then it's for you.

Let's try this one.

(CHIMES)

lguess

it's for you, Caleb.

You like?

Yeah.

It's your room.

You got a bed here.

A bathroom

right back here.

Little desk.

Little fridge.

Cozy, right?

CALEB: Yeah, this is great.

What?

Sorry?

There's something wrong.

What's wrong?

There's nothing wrong.

It's the windows.

You're thinking

there's no windows.

It's subterranean.

It's not cozy,

it's claustrophobic.

No. No way. lwasn't

thinking that.

l was thinking,

"This is really cool."

Caleb, there's a reason

there are no windows

in this room.

There is?

Uh-huh.

This building

isn't a house.

It's a research facility.

Buried in these walls

is enough fiber optic cable

to reach the moon

and lasso it.

And I want to talk to you

about what I'm researching,

I want to share it with you.

In fact, lwant to

share it with you so much,

it's eating me up inside.

But there's something

I need you

to do for me first.

"Blue Book

non-disclosure agreement."

Hmm.

Take your time.

Read it over.

"The signee agrees

to regular data audit

"with unlimited access,

"to confirm that

no disclosure

"of information

has taken place

"in public

or private forums,

"using any means

of communication,

"including but not limited

"to that which is

disclosed orally

"or in written

or electronic form."

I think I need a lawyer.

It's standard.

It doesn't feel

very standard.

Okay, it's not standard.

What can I tell you, Caleb?

You don't have to sign it.

You know, we can spend

the next few days

just shooting pool,

getting drunk together.

Bonding.

And when you discover

what you've missed out on,

in about a year,

you're gonna regret it

for the rest of your life.

(SCRIBBLING)

Good call.

So,

do you know what

the Turing Test is?

Yeah.

I know what

the Turing Test is.

It's when a human

interacts with a computer.

And if the human

doesn't know

they're interacting

with a computer,

the test is passed.

And what does

a pass tell us?

That the computer has

artificial intelligence.

Are you building an Al?

I've already built one.

And over the next few days,

you're gonna be

the human component

in a Turing Test.

Holy shit.

Yeah, that's right, Caleb.

You got it.

Becauseif

that test is passed,

you are dead center

of the greatest

scientific event

in the history of man.

If you've created

a conscious machine,

it's not the history of man.

That's the history of gods.

(CHIMES)

Hello.

Hi.

I'm Caleb.

Hello, Caleb.

Do you have a name?

Yes.

Ava.

I'm pleased

to meet you, Ava.

I'm pleased

to meet you, too.

I've never met

anyone new before.

Only Nathan.

Then I guess we're both

in quite a similar position.

Haven't you met

lots of new people before?

Hmm.

So we need

to break the ice.

Do you know what

I mean by that?

Yes.

What do I mean?

Overcome initial

social awkwardness.

So let's have

a conversation.

AVA: Okay.

What would you like to have

a conversation about?

Why don't we start with

you telling me

something about yourself?

What would you

like to know?

Whatever comes

into your head.

Well, you already

know my name.

And you can see

that I'm a machine.

Would you like to know

how old lam?

Sure.

I'm one.

One what?

One year or one day?

One.

When did you learn

how to speak, Ava?

I always knew

how to speak,

and that’s strange,

isn't it?

VVhy?

Becauselanguage

is something that

people acquire.

Well,

some people believe

language exists

from birth.

And what is learned

is the ability

to attach words

and structure to

the latent ability.

Do you agree with that?

I don 't know.

Will you come back

tomorrow, Caleb?

Yes.

(CHUCKLES)

Good.

Oh, man,

she's fascinating.

When you talk to her,

you're just...

Through the looking glass.

"Through the looking glass."

Wow.

You're good

with words, Caleb.

You're quotable.

Actually, that's

someone else's quote.

You know, lwrote down

that other line

you came up with.

The one about how

if I've invented a machine

with consciousness,

I'm not a man, I'm God.

I don't think

that's exactly what I...

| just thought,

"Fuck, man,

that is so good."

When we get to

tell the story. You know?

I turned to Caleb,

and he looked up at me

and he said,

"You're not a man,

you're God."

(STUTTERS) Yeah,

but I didn't say that.

So...

Anyway.

You're impressed.

(LAUGHING) Yes. Yes.

Although...

Although? (LAUGHING)

There's a qualification

to you being impressed?

No, there's no

qualification to her.

Uh, it'sjust

in the Turing Test,

the machine should be

hidden from the examiner.

No,no,no,

we're way past that.

lfl hid Ava from you,

so you just

heard her voice,

she would pass for human.

The real test is to show you

that she's a robot

and then see

if you still feel

she has consciousness.

Mmm.

Yeah, lthink

you're probably right.

(CHUCKLES)

Her language abilities,

they're incredible.

It's non-deterministic.

At first I thought

she was mapping

from internal semantic form

to syntactic tree-structu re

and then getting

linearized words.

But then I started

to realize the model

was some kind of hybrid.

Caleb.

No?

I understand that

you want me to

explain how Ava works.

But I'm sorry,

I'm not gonna be

able to do that.

Try me. I'm hot

on high-level abstraction.

It's not because I think

you're too dumb.

It's because I want to have

a beer and a conversation

with you.

Not a seminar.

(CHUCKLES)

Yeah. Sorry.

No, it's okay.

You're all right.

Just”

Answer me this.

How do you feel

about her?

Nothing analytical.

Just how do you feel?

I feel

that she's fucking amazing.

Dude.

Cheers.

Cheers.

(MUSIC PLAYING ON STEREO)

(EXHALES)

Damn it.

What the fuck?

(CLICKING)

(ALARM BLARING)

FEMALE AUTOMATED VOICE:

Power cut.

Backup power activated.

(CHIMES)

Full facility lock-down

until main generator

is restored.

You're kidding me.

Full facility lock-down

until main generator

is restored.

Power restored.

(CHIMES)

Hello?

FEMALE AUTOMATED VOICE:

Please insert keycard.

NATHAN:

You don't have access

to use the phone.

Hey.

Sorry, but you understand,

though, given Ava,

and you being

kind of an unknown.

I mean, a great guy.

Instant pals, and so on.

Who are you gonna call?

Oh.

I don't know.

No one, really.

Ghostbusters.

What?

Who are you gonna call?

Ghostbusters. It's a...

It's a movie, man.

You don't know that movie?

A ghost gives

Dan Aykroyd oral sex.

I was just wondering

how the phone worked.

That's all.

So what are you doing

awake at this time?

You come to join the party?

Uh, something happened

in my room.

Some kind of power cut.

So I came to see

what's going on.

We've been getting

those recently. Um...

I'm working on it.

I couldn't

open the door

to my bedroom.

That's a security measure.

Automatic lock-down.

Otherwise,

anybody could just

open the place up

by disabling the juice.

If it happens again, relax.

Okay?

Sure.

Sweet dreams.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

Oh.

(DOOR CLOSES)

Hey.

Hey, man.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Sorry I had to send

Kyoko to wake you,

Yeah, I know.

It was a good thing.

Thanks.

(MUSIC STOPS)

She's some

alarm clock, huh?

Gets you right up

in the morning.

(CHUCKLES)

So Day 2. You ready?

What's the plan? Hit me.

Yeah, well, I'm not sure.

I'm still trying to,

uh, figure

the examination formats.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, it feels like

testing Ava

through conversation

is kind of a Closed loop.

It's a closed loop?

Yeah.

Like testing

a Chess computer

by only playing Chess.

How else do you test

a Chess computer?

Well, it depends.

You know, I mean,

you can play it

to find out if it makes

good moves, but, uh...

But that won't

tell you if it knows

that it's playing Chess.

And it won't tell you

if it knows what Chess is.

Uh-huh. So it's

simulation versus actual.

Yes. Yeah.

And I think being

able to differentiate

between those two

is the Turing Test

you want me to perform.

Look, do me a favor.

Lay Off

the textbook approach.

I just want simple answers

to simple questions.

Yesterday | asked you

how you felt about her

and you gave me

a great answer.

Now the question is,

how does she feel

aboutyou?

What do you think?

CALEB: What is it

a drawing of?

Don't you know?

No.

I thought

you would tell me.

Don't you know?

I do drawings every day.

But I never know

what they're of.

Are you not trying to

sketch something specific?

Like an object

or a person?

Maybe you could try.

Okay.

What object should I draw?

Whatever you want.

It's your decision.

Why is it my decision?

I'm interested to see

what you'll Choose.

Do you want

to be my friend?

Of course.

Will it be possible?

Why would it not be?

Our conversations

are one-sided.

You ask

circumspect questions

and study my responses.

Yes.

You learn about me

and I learn nothing

aboutyou.

That's not a foundation

on which friendships

are based.

So what? You want me

to talk about myself?

Yes.

(CHUCKLES)

(STAMMERS) Where...

Okay, where do I start?

It's your decision.

I'm interested to see

what you'll Choose.

Hmm.

Okay, Ava.

Well,

you know my name.

Yes.

I'm 26.

I work at Nathan's company.

Do you know

what his company is?

Blue Book.

Named after

Wittgenstein's notes.

It's the world's

most popular

internet search engine,

processing an average

of 94% of all internet

search requests.

That's exactly right.

Where do you live, Caleb?

Brookhaven, Long Island.

Is it nice there?

It's okay.

I got an apartment.

It's kind of small.

It's very small.

But, uh, it's a five-minute

walk to the office

and a five-minute

walk to the ocean,

which I like.

Are you married?

Um...

No.

Is your status single?

Yes.

What about your family?

(SIGHS) I grew up

in Portland, Oregon.

No brothers or sisters.

My parents were both

high school teachers.

And if we're getting

to know each other,

I guess I should tell you

they're both dead.

Car crash when I was 15.

In fact, lwas

in the car with them.

BaCk seat.

But it was the front

that got the worst of it.

I'm sorry.

It's all right.

I spent a long time

in the hospital afterward.

Like nearly a year.

And I got into coding.

And by the time

I got to college,

I was pretty advanced.

An advanced programmer.

Yes.

Like Nathan.

Yes.

No.

It's different.

Nathan wrote

the Blue Book base code

when he was 13.

Which, if you

understand code,

what he did was like

Mozart or something.

I like Depeche Mode.

Do you like Nathan?

Yes, of course.

ls Nathan your friend?

My friend?

I... Yeah, I hope so.

A good friend?

CALEB: Um, yeah.

Well, no, no, no,

I mean, not a good friend.

A good friend is, uh...

We onlyjust met

eaCh other, you know.

So it takes time

to be able to, um...

To get to know

each other, I guess.

(ALARM BLARING)

FEMALE AUTOMATED VOICE:

Power cut.

Backup power activated.

Caleb.

You're wrong.

Wrong about what?

Nathan.

In what way?

He isn't your friend.

Excuse me?

I'm sorry, Ava,

I don't understand.

You shouldn't trust him.

You shouldn't trust

anything he says.

FEMALE AUTOMATED VOICE:

Power restored.

And if we made

a list of books

or works of art

whiCh we both know,

it would form the ideal

basis of a discussion.

(CHIMES)

lsthatokay?

Caleb?

Mmm-hmm.

Yeah.

Good.

CALEB: Thank you.

Oh, shit! Are you

fucking kidding me?

Did it get on you?

No, no, it's, uh...

It's all right.

I got it.

Dude, you're wasting

your time talking to her.

She doesn't

understand English.

Just give her the napkin.

Sorry.

It's like a firewall

against leaks.

It means I can talk

trade secrets over dinner

and know

it'll go no further.

It also means that

I can't tell her that

I'm pissed when she's

so fucking Clumsy

that she spills wine

over my house guest.

I think she gets

that you're pissed.

Yeah? Good.

Because I am pissed.

Hey, Kyoko.

Go-go.

It's funny.

You know.

No matter

how rich you get,

shit goes wrong.

You can't insulate

yourself from it.

(SIGHS)

I used to think

it was death and taxes

you couldn't avoid,

but it's actually

death and shit.

It's like these

power cuts.

You would not believe

how much I spent on

the generator system,

but I keep getting

failures every day.

Do you know

why they happen?

No.

The system was supposed

to be bulletproof,

but obviously the guys

that installed it

fucked something up.

Can't you just get them

to come back?

No. There's too much

Classified stuff here.

So after the job was done,

ljust had them all killed.

Anyway.

Here's to your

second day, buddy.

Cheers.

Cheers.

So how did it go?

What do you have

to report?

You saw how the day went,

didn't you?

I mean, I assume

youTe,uh,

watching on the CCTV.

Sure. But I want to

hear your take on it.

Yeah, there was

one interesting thing

that happened with Ava today.

Yeah?

Yeah.

She made a joke.

Right. When she threw

your line back at you.

(CHUCKLES)

About being interested

to see what she'd Choose.

Yeah, I noticed that, too.

Yeah, and it got me

thinking, it's, uh...

In a way,

it's the best

indication of Al

that I've seen

in her so far.

It's discretely complicated.

It's like, um...

It's kind of non-autistic.

What do you mean?

She could only do that

with an awareness

of her own mind,

and also

an awareness of mine.

Oh, she's aware

of you all right.

(CHUCKLES)

And what about

the power cut?

Sorry?

The power cut.

It's the only part

that I couldn't see.

Cameras fail,

I lose audio, the works.

So what happened?

Nothing.

Nothing? She didn't

remark on it at all?

No.

Not really.

Oh.

Hey.

Hey.

You want to see

something cool?

This is where

Ava was created.

Go ahead.

Take a look.

Sorry.

If you knew

the trouble I had

getting an Al

to read and duplicate

facial expressions.

You know how

I cracked it?

I don't know

how you did any of this.

Every cell phone,

just about,

has a microphone,

camera and a means

to transmit data.

So I turned on

every microphone

and camera

across the entire

fucking planet

and I redirected the data

through Blue Book. Boom!

Limitless resource of vocal

and facial interaction.

You hacked

the world's cell phones?

Yeah. And all

the manufacturers knew

I was doing it, too.

But they couldn't accuse me

without admitting

they were doing it

themselves.

Here,

we have her mind.

Structured gel.

I had to get away

from Circuitry.

I needed something

that could

arrange and rearrange

on a molecular level,

but keep its form

when required.

Holding for memories.

Shifting for thoughts.

This is your hardware?

Wetwa re.

And the, uh, software?

Well, I'm sure

you can guess.

Blue Book.

Here's the weird thing

about search engines.

It was like

striking oil in a world

that hadn't invented

internal combustion.

Too much raw material.

Nobody knew

what to do with it.

You see, my competitors,

they were fixated

on sucking it up

and monetizing via shopping

and social media.

They thought that

search engines were

a map of what

people were thinking.

But actually they were a map

of how people were thinking.

Impulse.

Response.

Fluid.

Imperfect.

Patterned.

Chaotic.

I drew the picture

of something specific.

As you asked.

You said it would be

interesting to see

what I would draw.

Is it interesting?

Yes. It is.

You've never been

outside this building?

No.

You've never

walked outside?

I've never been

outside the room

I am in now.

Where would you go

if you did go outside?

(CHUCKLES)

I'm not sure.

There are so many options.

Maybe a busy pedestrian

and traffic intersection

inadw.

A traffic intersection?

Is that a bad idea?

No. Uh...

It wasn't what

I was expecting.

A traffic intersection

would provide a concentrated

but shifting view

of human life.

People watching.

Yes.

Mmm.

We could go together.

It's a date.

There's something else

I wanted to show you.

Okay.

You might think

it's stupid.

I don't think I will.

Whatever it is.

Then Close your eyes.

Okay.

Now open your eyes.

How do I look?

You look

good.

This is what I'd wear

on our date.

Right. First a traffic

intersection.

Then maybe a show.

I'd like us

to go on a date.

Yeah. Yeah.

It would be fun.

Are you attracted to me?

What?

Are you attracted to me?

You give me indications

that you are.

How?

Micro expressions.

Micro expressions.

The way your eyes

fix on my eyes and lips.

The way you hold my gaze

or don't.

Do you think about me

when we aren't together?

Sometimes at night,

I'm wondering ifyou're

watching me on the cameras.

And I hope you are.

Now your micro expressions

are telegraphing discomfort.

I am not sure

you'd call them micro.

I don't want to

make you feel

uncomfortable.

CALEB: I got a question.

NATHAN: Okay.

CALEB: Why did you

give her sexuality?

An Al doesn't need

a gender.

She could have been

a gray box.

Hmm. Actually,

I don't think that's true.

Can you give an example

of consciousness,

at any level,

human or animal,

that exists without

a sexual dimension?

They have sexuality

as an evolutionary

reproductive need.

What imperative

does a gray box have

to interact

with another gray box?

Can consciousness exist

without interaction?

Anyway,

sexuality is fun, man.

If you're gonna exist,

why not enjoy it?

What? You want to

remove the Chance

of her falling in love

and fucking?

And in answer to

your real question,

you bet she can fuck.

What?

In between her legs,

there's an opening,

with a concentration

of sensors.

You engage them

in the right way,

creates a pleasure response.

So if you wanted

to screw her,

mechanically speaking,

you could.

And she'd enjoy it.

That wasn't

my real question.

Oh, okay. Sorry.

My real question was,

did you give her sexuality

as a diversion tactic?

I don't follow.

Like a stage magician

with a hot assistant.

So a hot robot

who Clouds your ability

to judge her Al?

Exactly. So. ..

Did you program her

to flirt with me?

If I did,

would that be Cheating?

Wouldn't it?

(SIGHS)

Caleb, what's your type?

Of girl?

No, of salad dressing.

Yeah, ofgirl.

What's your type of girl?

You know what?

Don't even answer that.

Let's say it's black Chicks.

Okay, that's your thing.

For the sake of argument,

that's your thing, okay?

Why is that your thing?

Because you did

a detailed analysis

of all racial types

and you cross-referenced

that analysis with

a points-based system?

NO!

You're just attracted

to black chicks.

A consequence of

accumulated external stimuli

that you probably

didn't even register

as they registered with you.

Did you program her

to like me, or not?

(SIGHS) l programmed her

to be heterosexual.

Just like you were

programmed to be

heterosexual.

Nobody programmed me

to be straight.

You decided to be straight?

Please.

Of course

you were programmed.

By nature or nurture,

or both.

And to be honest, Caleb,

you're starting to

annoy me now,

because this is

your insecurity talking.

This is not your intellect.

Come with me.

(CHIMES)

You know

this guy, right?

Jackson Pollock.

Jackson Pollock.

That's right.

The drip painter.

Okay. He let

his mind go blank,

and his hand go

where it wanted.

Not deliberate,

not random.

Some place in between.

They called it

automatic art.

Let's make this

like Star Trek, okay?

Engage intellect.

Excuse me?

I'm Kirk. Your head's

the warp drive.

Engage intellect.

What if Pollock

had reversed

the Challenge?

What if

instead of making art

without thinking,

he said, "You know what?

"I can't paint anything,

"unless I know exactly

why I'm doing it."

What would have happened?

He never would have

made a single mark.

Yes! You see,

there's my guy,

there's my buddy,

who thinks before

he opens his mouth.

He never would have

made a single mark.

The challenge is

not to act automatically.

It's to find an action

that is not automatic.

From painting,

to breathing, to talking,

to fucking.

To falling in love.

And for the record,

Ava's not pretending

to like you.

And her flirting

isn't an algorithm

to fake you out.

You're the first man

she's met that isn't me.

And I'm like

her dad, right?

Can you blame her

for getting a crush on you?

No, you can't.

When lwas in college,

I did a semester

on Al theory.

There was

a thought experiment

they gave us.

It's called

"Mary in the Black

and White Room."

Mary is a scientist,

and her specialist

subject is color.

She knows everything

there is to know about it.

The wavelengths.

The neurological effects.

Every possible property

that color can have.

But she lives in

a black and white room.

She was born there

and raised there.

And she can only observe

the outside world

on a black and white monitor.

And then one day

someone opens the door.

And Mary walks out.

And she sees a blue sky.

And at that moment,

she learns something

that all her studies

couldn't tell her.

She learns

what it feels like

to see color.

The thought experiment

was to show the students

the difference

between a computer

and a human mind.

The computer is Mary

in the black

and white room.

The human is when

she walks out.

Did you know that

I was brought here

to test you?

No.

CALEB: Why did you

think I was here?

AVA: I didn 't know.

I didn’t question it.

I 'm here to test

if you have

a consciousness,

or if you're

just simulating one.

Nathan isn't sure

ifyou have one or not.

How does that

make you feel?

It makes me feel sad.

(ALARM BLARING)

FEMALE AUTOMATED VOICE:

Power cut.

Back-up power activated.

Why did you tell me

I shouldn't trust Nathan?

Because he tells lies.

Lies about what?

Everything.

Including the power cuts?

What do you mean?

Don't you think

it's possible that

he's watching us?

Right now?

That the blackouts

are orchestrated,

so he can see

how we behave

when we think

we're unobserved.

I Charge my batteries

via induction plates.

If I reverse the power flow,

it overloads the system.

You're causing the cuts?

So we can see

how we behave

when we're unobserved.

Notbad,huh?

Yeah.

Can we talk about

the lies you've been

spinning me?

What lies?

I didn't win

a competition.

I wasn't

part of a lottery.

I was selected.

It's obvious,

once I stop to think.

Why would you randomly

select an examiner

for the Turing Test?

You could have had

some bean counter

turn up at your front door.

The guy who fixes

the air-conditioning.

The competition

was a smokescreen.

I didn't want

anyone to know

what I was doing here,

or why I required you.

Why me?

I needed someone

that would ask

the right questions.

So I did a search

and I found the most

talented coder

in my company.

You know,

instead of seeing this

as a deception,

you should see it as proof.

Proof of what?

Come on, Caleb.

You don't think

I know what it's like

to be smart?

Smarter than everyone else.

Jockeying for position.

You got the light

on you, man.

Not lucky. Chosen.

(GRUNTING)

(PANTING)

(FAUCET RUNNING)

(FAUCET RUNNING)

(WATER SPLASHING)

Kyoko.

Kyoko.

Where's Nathan?

Where's Nathan?

Jesus Christ.

You really don't speak

a word of English?

What the fuck?

Stop!

No, no, don't do that.

Don't do that.

You don't have to do that.

What are you doing?

NATHAN: I told you,

you're wasting your

time talking to her.

However, you would not

be wasting your time,

ifyou were

dancing with her.

(DISCO MUSIC PLAYING)

Go ahead,

dance with her.

Dance with her.

No? You don't like dancing?

She does.

Come on, buddy.

After a long day

of Turing Tests,

you gotta unwind.

What were you

doing with Ava?

What?

You tore up her picture.

I'm gonna tear up

the fucking

dance floor, dude.

Check it out.

Come on, Caleb.

Ah. (SNORTS)

(SPITS)

(GROANS)

Oh! Everything's spinning.

It's because

you're drunk.

No, it's called relativity.

Everything is spinning.

It's just being drunk

makes it worse.

I'm not going in there.

(SIGHS)

(GROANS)

Lights.

(CHIMES)

AVA: (OVER SPEAKER)

Today, I’m going

to test you.

CALEB: Test me?

And please remember,

while you’re taking

the test,

that if you lie,

I will know.

Oh. Right.

Question one.

What's your favorite color?

Red.

Lie.

Lie?

Yes. Lie.

Then... (CHUCKLES)

Then what is

my favorite color?

I don't know.

But it isn't red.

Okay, I get it. I guess,

seeing as I'm not six,

I don't really have

a favorite color.

Better answer.

Question two.

What's your earliest memory?

Well, actually,

it's a memory

of kindergarten.

There was a kid...

Lie.

Really?

Yes.

Um...

All right. So there is

a kind of

an earlier memory.

It's just a sound.

And sky.

Or maybe blue.

I think the sound

is my mother's voice.

Question three.

Are you a good person?

Oh.

Holy shit.

(CHUCKLES)

Look, can we stop the test?

You're a walking

lie detector,

and ljust realized

this is a fucking minefield.

No! We can't stop.

Are you a good person?

Yeah. lthink so.

Question four.

What will happen to me

if I fail your test?

Ava...

Will it be bad?

Do you think

I might be switched off,

because I don't function

as well as I'm supposed to?

Ava, I don't know

the answer to

yourquesfion.

It's not up to me.

Why is it up to anyone?

Do you have people

who test you and might

switch you off?

No, I don't.

Then why do I?

(ALARM BLARING)

FEMALE AUTOMATED VOICE:

Power cut.

Backup power activated.

I wanna be with you.

Question five.

Do you want to be with me?

Why did you make Ava?

That's an odd question.

Wouldn't you,

ifyou could?

Maybe.

I don't know.

(SCOFFS)

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, |, 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?

(SIGHS)

Feelbad

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.

(CHUCKLES)

There you go again.

It's not my quote.

It's what Oppenheimer

said after he made

the atomic bomb.

The atomic bomb.

Yeah, I know

what it is, dude.

Hey.

I'd say we're about

due a refill.

Bottoms up.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

NATHAN: "In battle,

in the forest,

"on the precipice

of the mountain.

(VOICE CRACKING)

"On the...

"The great dark sea.

"In sleep, in confusion,

"in the depths of shame.

(SOBBING)

"The good deeds

a man has done

before defend him."

"The good deeds

a man has done

before defends him."

"The good deeds a man

has done before

"defends him."

(SIGHS DEEPLY)

It is what it is.

It's Promethean, man.

(CHIMES)

(DOOR OPENS)

Jesus Christ.

NATHAN: How are you

feeling today?

Why won 't you

let me out?

I already told you why.

Because you're

very special.

Why won 't you

let me out?

Are we gonna

do this again?

Why won 't you

let me out?

(EXHALING LOUDLY)

Oh, fuck. Where's my card?

Damn it!

(GRUNTS)

(CHIMES)

What's the problem,

Nathan?

I lost my keycard.

You dropped it.

It's right here.

Thank you.

(GRUNTS)

I didn't know

where you were.

I waited

all yesterday afternoon

and all last night.

I thought I wasn't

gonna see you again.

Aren't you gonna

say something?

I'm waiting.

Waiting?

(CHIMES)

(ALARM BLARING)

FEMALE AUTOMATED VOICE:

Power cut.

Don't talk.

Backup power activated.

Just listen.

You were right

about Nathan.

Everything you said.

What's he gonna do to me?

He's gonna

reprogram your Al.

Which is the same

as killing you.

Caleb, you have to

help me.

I'm going to.

We're getting out

of here tonight.

How?

I get Nathan blind drunk.

Then I take his keycard

and reprogram

all the security protocols

in this place.

When he wakes,

he's locked inside,

and we've walked out of here.

ljust need you

to do one thing.

At 10:00 tonight,

you trigger a power failure.

Can you do that?

Yes.

(PANTING)

Dude.

Hey. Hey-

You know

what day it is?

No.

It's your last.

Helicopter comes

tomorrow morning.

8:00 am.

Wow. Has it been

a whole week?

Man, but what a thing

we've shared, huh?

Something to tell

the grandchildren, right?

After they've signed

their NDAs.

(BOTH LAUGHING)

Yeah, their NDAs.

Dude, you crack

me up, man.

Oh...

You know what?

I'm not getting

all maudlin or anything,

but I'm gonna miss

having you around.

Thanks, man,

I appreciate that.

Oh, here, let me say,

thank you so much

for bringing me here.

Oh.

It's been a trip.

Yes, it has.

You know what?

We need to

drink to that.

Hey.

Oh, uh, no, I'm good.

You go ahead.

What? You don't

want a drink?

No.

Maybe a beer

or something.

Caleb, I'm sure you've

noticed that I've been

somewhat overdoing it

recently.

So when I woke up

this morning, I said,

"That's it, time to hit

the old detox."

Come on, you're kidding.

You're gonna make me

drink alone?

Hey, man,

you wanna get wasted,

you go right ahead,

knock yourself out.

Literally.

But I'm on brown rice

and mineral water.

Cheers, then.

So, anyway,

surely now

is when you tell me

ifAva passed or failed.

Right.

Right.

Are you gonna keep me

in suspense?

No, no. Her, uh...

Her AI is beyond doubt.

Is it?

She passed?

Yes.

Wow!

Wow. That's fantastic.

Although...

I gotta say,

I'm a bit surprised.

I mean,

did we ever get past

the Chess problem,

as you phrased it?

As in, how do you know

if a machine

is expressing

a real emotion

orjust simulating one?

Does Ava actually

like you?

Or not?

Although, now that

I think about it,

there is a third option.

Not whether

she does or does not

have the capacity

to like you.

But whether she's

pretending to like you.

Pretending to like me?

Yeah.

Well, why would

she do that?

I don't know.

Maybe if she thought of you

as a means of escape.

Mmm-hmm.

How's that vodka tasting?

(SIGHS) Buddy.

Your head's been

so fucked with.

I don't think it's me

whose head is fucked.

I don't know, man.

I woke up this morning

to a tape of you

slicing your arm open

and punching the mirror.

You seem pretty

fucked up to me.

You're a bastard.

(CLICKS TONGUE)

Yeah, well,

I understand why

you'd think that.

But believe it or not,

I'm actually the guy

that's on your side.

Come here. I'm gonna

let you off the hook.

Okay?

Come on.

Who are you?

(KEYBOARD CLAC KING)

Well...

You think he's

watching us right now?

The cameras are on.

Yeah, the cameras are on.

But he doesn't have

an audio feed.

So he just sees

two people talking,

having a little chat.

(LAUGHING)

Wo w.

This is cute.

Is it strange

to have made

something that

hates you?

You were right

about the magician's

hot assistant.

What are you

talking about?

Misdirection.

I rip up her picture,

which she can then

present as an illustration

of my cruelty to her,

and her love for you.

At the same time,

it allows me to do this,

in full view of you both.

Place a new camera

in the room.

Battery powered, of course.

See it?

(KEYBOARD CLACKING)

(NATHAN HUMMING)

And then...

AVA: You have to help me.

CALEB: I’m going to.

We 're getting out

of here tonight.

How?

I get Nathan

blind drunk.

I take his keycard

and reprogram

all the security protocols

in this place.

When he wakes up,

he's locked inside,

and we've walked out

of here.

I just need you

to do one thing.

At 10:00 tonight,

trigger a power failure.

Can you do that?

AVA: Yes.

Turn it off.

Okay.

(CLICKS)

(CHUCKLES)

You feel stupid,

but you really shouldn't,

because proving an AI

is exactly as problematic

as you said it would be.

What was the real test?

You.

Ava was a rat

in a maze.

And I gave her

one way out.

To escape,

she'd have to use

self-awareness,

imagination,

manipulation,

sexuality, empathy,

and she did.

Now, if that isn't true Al,

what the fuck is?

So my only function

was to be someone

she could use to escape?

Yeah.

And you didn't select me

because I'm good at coding?

No. Well...

No. I mean, you're okay.

You're even

pretty good, but...

You selected me

based on my

search engine inputs.

They showed a good kid.

With no family.

With a moral compass.

And no girlfriend.

Did you design Ava's face

based on my

pornography profile?

Oh.

Shit, dude.

Did you?

(CLICKS TONGUE)

Hey, if a search engine's

good for anything, right?

(CHUCKLES)

Can ljust say one thing?

The test worked.

It was a success.

Ava demonstrated true A!

and you were

fundamental to that.

So if you can just,

for a second, separate...

(ALARM BLARING)

FEMALE AUTOMATED VOICE:

Power cut.

Backup power activated.

(CHIMES)

Well, I guess it's 10:00.

Ava's gonna be

wondering where you are.

Let me ask you something.

Now, how was this plan

gonna go, anyway?

Because you didn't

totally explain.

So you were gonna

get me drunk,

steal my keycard,

and reprogram

the security protocols.

But reprogram them to what?

To change

the lockdown procedure.

So that in the event

of a power cut,

instead of sealing,

the doors all opened.

Huh.

Yeah.

(CHUCKLES)

Well, that may have

just worked.

Well,

we'll find out.

(SCOFFS)

What do you mean?

I figured you were

probably watching us

during the power cuts.

So I already did

all those things.

When I got you

drunk yesterday.

What?

FEMALE AUTOMATED VOICE:

Power restored.

(COMPUTER CHIMES)

Whoa. Whoa, whoa.

Oh, fuck!

(GRUNTS)

(INAUDIBLE)

Ava.

Go back to your room.

If I do,

are you ever gonna

let me out?

Yes.

Stop!

Stop!

Ava, I said stop!

VVhoaIVVhoaIVVhoa!

(GROANING)

Ava, what are you doing?

Stop. Stop.

That's enough. (COUGHS)

All right,

that's enough.

That's enough!

That's enough.

(GRUNTS)

(PANTING)

I'm taking you back.

(GROANING)

(GROANING)

(GRUNTS)

Okay.

(GRUNTS)

Fucking unreal.

(GROANING)

(PANTING)

Okay.

Ava...

(CALEB GROANING)

Ava.

What happened?

Will you stay here?

Stay here?

Ava?

(INAUDIBLE)

(lNAUDlBLE)Ava!

(BEEPS) Ava!

Ava!

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

Okay. Okay. Okay.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(CLICKING)

(BEEPING)

(POWER SHUTS DOWN)

(CRYING)