Transcendence * Quotes

"This thing is like any intelligence. It needs to grow, to advance. Right now it's settling somewhere it thinks it's safe from outside threats. Somewhere its massive appetite for power can be met. But it will want more than that. After a while survival won't be enough. It will expand, evolve, influence - perhaps the entire world."

"For 130,000 years, our capacity to reason has remained unchanged. The combined intellect of the neuroscientists, mathematicians and... hackers... in this auditoirum pales in comparison to the most basic A.I. Once online, a sentient machine will quickly overcome the limits of biology. And in a short time, its analytic power will become greater than the collective intelligence of every person born in the history of the world. So imagine such an entity with a full range of human emotion. Even self-awareness. Some scientists refer to this as 'the Singularity'. I call it 'Transcendence'."

Will: "I need you to wait here."
Evelyn: "What? Where are you going?"
Will: "Everywhere."

Joseph: "Will?"
Will: "You're surprised to see me, Joseph?"
Joseph: "Um... That depends."
Will: "On what?"
Joseph: "Can you prove you're self-aware?"
Will: "That's a difficult question, Dr. Tagger. Can you prove that you are?"
Evelyn: "Well, he certainly hasn't lost his sense of humor."

Max Waters: "Shut it down!"
Evelyn Caster: "It? That's HIM!"

Audience Member: "So you want to create a god? Your own god?"
Will: "That's a very good question. Isn't that what man has always done?"

"Look at the sky. The clouds. We're healing the ecosystem. not harming it. Particles join the air, building themselves out of pollutant. Forests can be regrown. Water so pure, you can drink out of any river. This is your dream."