Ex Machina - The Nature of True Artificial Intelligence
Caleb:
What was the real test?
Nathan:
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 AI, what the fuck is?
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Ex Machina - Unwinding Tensions Over Ava's Picture
Nathan: [[w:Turing test|Turing tests]
C'mon buddy. After a long day of ] you gotta unwind.
Caleb:
What were you doing with Ava?
Nathan:
What?
Caleb:
You tore up her picture.
Nathan: [begins to disco dance with Kyoko]
I'm gonna tear up the fucking dance floor, dude. Check it out.
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Ex Machina - Unveiling Deception in Artificial Intelligence Experiment
Caleb:
Can we talk about the lies you've been spinning me?
Nathan:
What lies?
Caleb:
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.
Nathan:
The competition was a smokescreen. I didn't want anyone to know what I was doing here, or why I required you.
Caleb:
Why me?
Nathan:
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.
Caleb:
Proof of what?
Nathan:
Come on, Caleb. You don't think I don't 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.
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Ex Machina - Questioning Perceptions of Nathan
Ava:
Caleb, you're wrong.
Caleb:
Wrong about what?
Ava:
Nathan.
Caleb:
In what way?
Ava:
He isn't your friend.
Caleb:
Excuse me? I'm sorry, Ava, I don't understand.
Ava:
You shouldn't trust him. You shouldn't trust anything he says.
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Ex Machina - Testing Intelligence Through Limited Interaction
Caleb:
I'm still trying to figure the examination formats. Yeah, it feels like testing Ava through conversation is kind of a closed loop.
Nathan:
It's a closed loop?
Caleb:
Yeah. Like testing a chess computer by only playing chess.
Nathan:
How else do you test a chess computer?
Caleb:
Well, it depends. You know, I mean, you can play it to find out if it makes good moves, but... 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.
Nathan:
Uh huh. So it's simulation versus actual.
Caleb:
Yes, yeah. And I think being able to differentiate between the two is the Turing Test you want me to perform.
Nathan:
Look, do me a favor. Lay off the textbook approach. I just want simple answers to simple questions. Yesterday I asked you how you felt about her and you gave me a great answer. Now the question is, "How does she feel about you?
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Ex Machina - The Intersection of Intuition and Intellect
Nathan:
You know this guy, right?
Caleb: [[Jackson Pollock]
].
Nathan: [[Star Trek]
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 ], okay? Engage intellect.
Caleb:
Excuse me?
Nathan: [[w:James T. Kirk|Kirk]
I'm ]. 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?
Caleb:
He never would have made a single mark.
Nathan:
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?
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Ex Machina - The Nature of Programming and Attraction
Caleb:
Did you program her to flirt with me?
Nathan:
If I did, would that be cheating?
Caleb:
Wouldn't it?
Nathan:
Caleb, what's your type?
Caleb:
Of girl?
Nathan:
No, salad dressing. Yeah, of girl; what's your type of girl? You know what, don't even answer that. Let's say its 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.
Caleb:
Did you program her to like me, or not?
Nathan:
I programmed her to be heterosexual, just like you were programmed to be heterosexual.
Caleb:
Nobody programmed me to be straight.
Nathan:
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.
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Ex Machina - Humor in Human-AI Interaction
Caleb:
There was one interesting thing that happened today.
Nathan:
Yeah?
Caleb:
Yeah. She made a joke.
Nathan:
Right. When she threw your line back at you. About being interested to see what she'd choose. Right, I noticed that, too.
Caleb:
Yeah, that got me thinking, you know. In a way, that's the best indication of AI that I've seen in her so far. It's discretely complicated. It's like... it's kind of non-autistic.
Nathan:
What do you mean?
Caleb:
She could only do that with an awareness of her own mind... and also an awareness of mine.
Nathan:
Oh, she's aware of you, all right.
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Ex Machina - The Nature of Friendship and Connection
Ava:
Do you want to be my friend?
Caleb:
Of course.
Ava:
Will it be possible?
Caleb:
Why would it not be?
Ava:
Our conversations are one-sided. You ask circumspect questions and study my responses.
Caleb:
Yes.
Ava:
You learn about me and I learn nothing about you. That's not a foundation on which friendships are based.
Caleb:
So what? You want me to talk about myself?
Ava:
Yes.
Caleb:
Where... Okay, where do I start?
Ava:
It's your decision. I'm interested to see what you'll choose.
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Ex Machina - Understanding Ava's Language Model
Caleb:
Her language abilities... they're incredible. The system is stochastic. Right? It's non-deterministic? At first I thought she was mapping from internal semantic form to syntactic tree-structured and then getting linearised words. But then I started to realise the model was some kind of hybrid.
Nathan:
Caleb.
Caleb:
No?
Nathan:
I understand that you want me to explain how Ava works, but I'm sorry. I'm not gonna be able to do that.
Caleb:
Try me. I'm hot on high-level abstraction.
Nathan:
It's not cause I think you're too dumb. It's cause I want to have a beer and a conversation with you, not a seminar.
Caleb: [laughs nervously]
Sorry.
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Ex Machina - The Nature of Consciousness in AI
Caleb:
It's just in the Turing test, the machine should be hidden from the examiner.
Nathan:
No, no. We're way past that. If I hid Ava from you so you could just hear 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.
Caleb:
Yeah, I think you're probably right.
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Ex Machina - Understanding the Turing Test and AI
Nathan: [[w:Turing test|Turing test]
So, do you know what the ] is?
Caleb:
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.
Nathan:
And what does a pass tell us?
Caleb: [astounded]
That the computer has artificial intelligence. Are you building an AI?
Nathan: [pause]
I've already built one. Over the next few days you're going to be the human component in a Turing test.
Caleb:
Holy shit!
Nathan:
Yeah, that's right, Caleb. You got it. Because if the test is passed, you are dead center of the greatest scientific event in the history of man.
Caleb:
If you've created a conscious machine, it's not the history of man. That's the history of gods.
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Ex Machina - Navigating Personal Connections in a Professional Setting
Nathan:
Caleb, I'm just going to throw this out there so it's said, okay? You're freaked out.
Caleb:
I am?
Nathan:
Yeah. You're freaked out, by the helicopter, and the mountains and the house, because it's all so super-cool. And 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?
Caleb:
Yeah, okay.
Nathan:
Yeah?
Caleb:
Yes, uh... yeah. It's good to meet you, Nathan.
Nathan:
It's good to meet you too, Caleb.
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Anna Karenina - A Conversation About Desires and Contentment
Oblonsky: [Agafia comes in with the roast fowl.]
Ah— potage aux choux a la Russe! Agafia!— if you opened up in Moscow, l'Angleterre would go out of business. Do you want news of Moscow?
Levin:
Of Babylon? No.
Oblonsky:
You're right, what do you care? You love the country— you've got it. You love agriculturing, and, Lord knows, you've got it. You love shooting— you’ve got it. You've got everything you want!
Levin:
All right, go on, then. Have you stopped stealing bread rolls?
Oblonsky:
Ballet girl, oriental type. How can I help it?
Levin:
So, nothing new to tell me. How is— how are the Shcherbatskys?
Oblonsky:
You mean Kitty.
Levin:
I... Is she engaged now?
Oblonsky:
No. Vronsky went back to St. Petersburg.
Oblonsky:
Kitty will be at Ergoshovo visiting Dolly in the summer. You could...
Levin:
Oh yes, as if I had time in the summer! And I've got extra land this year at Kashin for the haymaking.
Oblonsky:
Kashin? That’s on the Ergoshovo road, isn't it? Won't you call when Kitty is there?
Levin:
Especially not then. I humiliated myself once.
Oblonsky:
Damn you, Kostya, you love Kitty and you can't forgive her because, first, you funked it, then you bungled it, then you ran away from an eighteen-year-old girl who was made a fool of by a uniform. It's Kitty I'm sorry for— not you!
Levin:
Her heart told her no. Did you come to shoot snipe or criticize me?
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Anna Karenina - A Delightful Reception for Kitty
Kitty:
Look at me! I'm receiving for Papa and Maman who are late to dress. It’s my first reception.
Levin:
Princess Ekaterina! Delighted, delighted!
Kitty: [formal]
I'm so pleased you were able to be with us, Konstantin Dmitrich!
Levin:
Kitty... you look... you look...
Kitty:
Stiva told us you were back. How long are you staying?
Levin:
I don't know. It depends on you.
Kitty:
On me?
Levin:
What I mean to say— I came with only one purpose— I want to— will you be my wife? I’m sorry— sorry— wrong moment— but will you?
Kitty:
I can't. I'm sorry.
Levin:
Yes. It was impossible.
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Anna Karenina - The Complexity of Love and Morality
Countess Lydia:
Your husband is a saint and we must all cherish him for Russia's sake.
Countess Nordston:
I'd call on her if she'd only broken the law. But she broke the rules!
Levin:
Sensual desire indulged for its own sake is the misuse of something sacred.
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - Discovery of the Spy by Allegiant General
General Hux:
It was a coordinated incursion, Allegiant General. They overpowered the guards and forced me to take them to their ship.
Allegiant General Pryde: [to female aide]
I see. Get me the Supreme Leader.
Aide:
Yes, sir.
Pryde: [takes a stormtrooper's blaster, executes Hux, and gives the stormtrooper his weapon back; to aide]
Tell him we found our spy.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Strategic Shift in Galactic Power Dynamics
Supreme Leader Snoke:
The droid will soon be delivered to the Resistance, leading them to the last Jedi. If Skywalker returns, the new Jedi will rise.
General Hux:
Supreme Leader, I take full responsibility—
Snoke:
GENERAL! Our strategy must now change.
Hux:
The weapon... it is ready. I believe the time has come to use it. We shall destroy the government that supports the Resistance... the Republic. Without their friends to protect them, the Resistance will be vulnerable, and we will stop them before they reach Skywalker.
Snoke:
Go. Oversee preparations.
Hux:
Yes, Supreme Leader.
Snoke:
There has been an awakening. Have you felt it?
Ren:
Yes.
Snoke:
There's something more. The droid we seek is aboard the Millennium Falcon... in the hands of your father, Han... Solo.
Ren:
He means nothing to me.
Snoke:
Even you, Master of the Knights of Ren, have never faced such a test.
Ren:
By the grace of your training, I will not be seduced.
Snoke: [as his hologram fades]
We shall see. We shall see.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens - The End of the Republic
General Hux: [Addressing an assembly of [[w:First Order (Star Wars)|First Order]
] troops] Today is the end of the Republic! The end of a regime that acquiesces to disorder! At this very moment in a system far from here, the New Republic lies to the galaxy while secretly supporting the treachery of the loathsome Resistance. This fierce machine which you have built, upon which we stand, will bring an end to the Senate! To their cherished fleet! All remaining systems will bow to the First Order, and will remember this as the last day of the Republic!
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 - Defending Liberty in Dark Times
Rufus Scrimgeour: [First lines]
These are dark times, there is no denying. Our world has perhaps faced no greater threat than it does today. But I say this to our citizenry: We, ever your servants, will continue to defend your liberty and repel the forces that seek to take it from you! Your Ministry remains...strong.
Bill Weasley:
Mad-Eye's dead. Mundungus took one look at Voldemort and disapparated.
Ollivander: [while being tortured by Voldemort]
I believed a different wand would work, I swear!
Neville Longbottom: [Confronting Death Eaters on the train; [w:Harry Potter (character)|he]
Hey, losers, ] isn't here.
Xenophilius Lovegood: [draws a line; draws a circle; draws a triangle]
The Elder Wand, the most powerful wand ever made. The Resurrection Stone. The Cloak of Invisibility. Together, they make the Deathly Hallows. Together, they make one master of death.
Lucius Malfoy: [To Scabior]
You dare to talk to me like that IN MY OWN HOUSE?!
Bellatrix Lestrange: [Ordering Narcissa to put both Harry and Ron in the cellar; To Hermione]
Cissy, put the boys in the cellar! I want to have a little conversation with this one, girl-to-girl!
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