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A.I. : Artificial Intelligence (2001) A.I. : Artificial Intelligence (2001) by Ian Watson and Brian Aldiss. The Complete Dialogue. Official host of The Complete Dialogue is http://www.comeawayohumanchild.net/AIdialogue.htm More info about this movie on IMDb.com <http://imdb.com/title/tt0212720/> Part One SHEILA Love is first widening my eyes a little bit and ATLANTIC OCEAN quickening my breathing a little and warming my skin NARRATOR Those were the years after the ice caps had and touching with my— melted because of the greenhouse gases, and the oceans HOBBY And so on. Exactly so. Thank you, Sheila. had risen to drown so many cities along all the But I wasn’t referring to sensuality simulators. The shorelines of the world. Amsterdam. Venice. New word that I used was love. Love like the love of a child York. Forever lost. for its parents. I propose that we build a robot child, Millions of people were displaced, climate became who can love. A robot child who will genuinely love chaotic. Hundreds of millions of people starved in the parent or parents it imprints on, with a love that will poorer countries. Elsewhere, a high degree of never end. prosperity survived when most governments in the TEAM MEMBER #3 A child substitute mecha? developed world introduced legal sanctions to strictly HOBBY But a mecha with a mind, with neuronal license pregnancies, which was why robots, who were feedback. You see what I’m suggesting is that love will never hungry and who did not consume resources be the key by which they acquire a kind of subconscious beyond those of their first manufacture, were so never before achieved. An inner world of metaphor, of essential an economic link in the chain mail of society. intuition, of self motivated reasoning. Of dreams. LIBRARY-CYBERTRONICS CORP. TEAM MEMBER #4 A robot that dreams? HOBBY To create an artificial being has been the dream HOBBY Yes. of man since the birth of science. Not merely the TEAM MEMBER #4 And how exactly do we pull this ff beginning of the modern age, when our forebears o ? astonished the world with the first thinking machines: FEMALE TEAM MEMBER You know, it occurs to me. primitive monsters that could play chess. How far we um. with all this animus existing against mechas have come. The artificial being is a reality of perfect today, it isn’t simply a question of creating a robot who simulacrum, articulated in limb, articulate in speech, can love, but isn’t the real conundrum—can you get a and not lacking in human response. human to love them back? SHEILA Ahhh!! HOBBY Ours will be a perfect child caught in a freeze-frame—always loving, never ill, never changing. HOBBY . and even pain memory response. How did With all the childless couples yearning in vain for a that make you feel? Angry? Shocked? license, our little mecha would not only open an SHEILA I don’t understand. entirely new market, it will fill a great human need. HOBBY What did I do to your feelings? FEMALE TEAM MEMBER But you haven’t answered SHEILA You did it to my hand. my question. If a robot could genuinely love a person, HOBBY Aye. There’s the rub. Undress. At Cybertronics what responsibility does that person hold toward that of New Jersey, the artificial being has reached its mecha in return? It’s a moral question, isn’t it? highest form. Universally adopted mecha, the basis for HOBBY The oldest one of all. But in the beginning, hundreds of models, serving the human race in all the didn’t God create Adam to love him? multiplicity of daily life. That’s far enough. But we CRYOGENIC HOSPITAL have no reason to congratulate ourselves. We are, MONICA The baby was born as the first leaves of autumn rightly, proud of it, but what does it amount to? Sheila, fell. A baby boy. And Marion’s wish came true. The open. A sensory toy, with intelligent behavioral circuits, boy had white hair. He was baptized Martin after his using neurone sequencing technology as old as I am. I grandfather. believe that my work on mapping the impulse pathways HENRY Dr Frazier. Hi. It’s good to see you. in a single neurone can enable us to construct a mecha DR.FRAZIER Hi. How’re you? ff of a qualitatively di erent order. I propose that we build HENRY Listen, there was an article by Randenbach in the a robot, who can love. Journal of Chinese Medicine—they’re talking about TEAM MEMBER #1 Love? these virus locators. TEAM MEMBER #2 But we ship thousands of lover DR.FRAZIER Hello again, Monica. models every month. HENRY . microscopic, synthetic hunter killers. Did TEAM MEMBER #3 Of course, you’re your own best you read that article? customer, Siyatsu-sama. MONICA I can still hear you! TEAM MEMBER #2 Quality control is. very important! DR.FRAZIER I’m worried about her, Henry. She’s really HOBBY Tell me, what is love? got me worried. 1 HENRY Yeah, I know. irreversible. The robot child’s love would be sealed, in DR.FRAZIER She’s in the most difficult position of a sense hardwired, and we’d be part of him forever. feeling she should mourn the death of your son. After Because of this, after imprinting, no mecha child can five years your instincts tell you to mourn him, too. But be resold. If an adoptive parent should ever decide not medicine assures us that mourning is inappropriate, that to keep the child, they must return it to Cybertronics for Martin is merely pending. destruction. Now, I had to sign a letter of agreement or HENRY Pending. they wouldn’t even let you see David. You have to sign DR.FRAZIER So all her grief goes undigested. Henry, it too. right here. Monica. don’t imprint until your son may be beyond our science, but it’s your wife you’re entirely sure. who can still be reached. MONICA Silly man. Of course I’m not sure. HOBBY’S OFFICE MARTIN’S BEDROOM FIRST ASSISTANT The screening process was extremely DAVID Would you like me to sleep now? difficult. It was almost tougher than building the MONICA Uh. prototype. HENRY Good Idea. Good idea. Monica? SECOND ASSISTANT Of our 2,000 employees a MONICA Uh..well..it’s late, you know. it’s after nine,so surprising few met your minimum requirements for the uh. in-house testing. Initiate. Employment record. Quality HENRY Yeah. Ten past. of life style. Query. Internal data. Loyalty to the firm. MONICA How..how late do they let you stay up? And. in this individuals case, a family tragedy that DAVID I can never go to sleep, but I can lay quietly, and may qualify him above the rest. not make a peep. HOBBY I’ll see him. MONICA So those pajamas will fit you, and uh, we’ll be FOYER-SWINTON HOME in to check on you first thing in the morning. MONICA Henry. DAVID Dress me? HENRY Don’t kill me. MONICA You know I’m gonna say good night. while MONICA Henry, what are you doing? you. boys be boys. HENRY I love you. Don’t kill me. Door’s closed. HENRY Raise your arms. HALLWAY CLOSET DAVID I like your floor. DAVID Is it a game? MASTER BEDROOM MONICA Yes. Hide and Seek. Found you. That’s your MONICA I can’t accept this! There is no substitute for bedroom. Just go and play. your own child! HALLWAY BATHROOM HENRY You don’t have to accept it or even try—it’s not MONICA Ahhh! too late to take him back! DAVID I found you. MONICA What were you thinking?! MONICA Out! Out! Get outta here! And close the HENRY I’ll do whatever you want me to do! goddamn door! MONICA You think I can just, I can just. DINING ROOM HENRY I’ll do whatever you want me to do! DAVID, MONICA, & HENRY MONICA I don’t know. what to do. HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA. .! HENRY I know, I know. I’ll return him to Cybertronics MARTIN’S BEDROOM first thing in the morning, it’s gone. (Monica dresses David for bed—her mind bounces back MONICA Good. I mean Henry, did you see his face? and forth between David and Martin. The next day. ) He’s, he’s so real. But he’s not. DAVID Is it a game? HENRY No, he’s not. MONICA Now, I’m gonna read some words, MONICA I mean, inside he’s like all the rest, isn’t he? and. uh. they won’t make any sense, but I want you HENRY A hundred miles of fiber, yeah. to listen to them anyway. And. look at me all the time. MONICA But outside he just looks so real. like he is a Can you do that? child. DAVID Yes, Monica. HENRY A mecha child. MONICA Can you feel my hand on the back of your MONICA A child. neck? MASTER BATHROOM DAVID Yes. HENRY The show of faith my company has placed on MONICA Does any of this hurt? me. on us, is extraordinary. Now there are a few DAVID No. simple procedures we need to follow if and when you MONICA Okay. Now. Look at me? Ready? Cirrus. decide to keep David. If you decide to keep him, there’s Socrates. Particle. Decibel. Hurricane. Dolphin. Tulip. an imprinting protocol consisting of a code string of Monica. David. Monica. seven particular words which need to be spoken to All right.
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