Genesis Page #4

Well surely you can tell

me something about him.

What about the way he looked?

I'm afraid there are no

pictures in my database.

No pictures well

that's interesting.

What are you doing Ainsley?

I'm merely trying to establish

his basic abilities to think

beyond the rational answer.

He surpassed the constraints

of the churring test long ago.

Machines have proved

their ability to display

the illusion of consciousness

for years now Doctor.

We wanted a machine with

ethical judgment as well.

I think in know where Secretary

Ainsley is going with this.

A hypothetical question

for you Mark III.

I prefer Abel.

Mark III you discover

a 20 kilogram container

full of antibiotics, food, and

vitamins in the wastelands.

Next to it is a badly

inured Doctor Eve Gabriel.

[Eve] This is...

And you can only return

one of them to Eden.

Which one do you choose?

I choose Eve.

Even though the antibiotics

could save countless lives?

Yes.

Eve is the key to the

survival of civilization.

No Mark III you are.

[Eve] What do you mean two

more weeks of fine tuning?

[President] I

mean he's not ready.

[Eve] I know his capabilities

and he is ready for the outside.

[Ainsley] Dr. Gabriel that

is the President of Eden.

Eden needs food

and it needs it now.

No one is disputing that.

But there's a

basic probably with

the Mark III's ethical makeup.

The machine is, well

it's too human right now.

We built him to spec.

Then change the spec.

I did but he's

creating his own rules.

Think of a game of chess.

There are rules but the

rules don't dictate the game.

So what are saying he's

just developed empathy?

Like all lifeforms his

consciousness is evolving.

Lifeform?

Dr. Gabriel we

asked for a machine

one that could traverse

the ground beyond the range

of our details and reach

untapped food stores,

a machine that understood

the basic human needs

for survival, a machine

with apt moral judgment.

And won't be able

to achieve that unless

his programming gives him the

capacity for self awareness.

Yes he will.

And I advise you get

back to work doctor.

I don't want a man,

I want a machine.

And preferably one that doesn't

look like your dead husband.

[Computer] Access

granted President Pope.

(contemplative music)

[Alexa] What's wrong?

[Frost] You know I could

have brought him back.

[Alexa] Who McMan?

He would have died anyway.

You know I just wish...

You just wish what?

There's not much good

left here you know.

There is in people like you.

You seemed distressed.

Did I not pass?

[Eve] You did in my eyes.

But not in theirs.

Eve.

The decree written up

by the board two weeks

after day zero stated

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