Artificial Intelligence: AI Page #5

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Joe!

Try "fairy tale."

New category.

A fairy's tale.

No! Fairy tale.

No. Fairy tale.

What is Blue Fairy?

Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi.

"There was a rustling

as a flapping of wings...

...and a falcon flew

to the windowsill.

'What are your orders,

beautiful fairy?' "

That's her!

"You know that the child

with blue hair...

...was the good-hearted fairy...

...who had lived in that wood

for more than a thousand--"

That's her!

It was an example of her.

But we're getting closer.

But if a fairy tale is real,

then wouldn't it be fact?

A flat fact?

Say no more.

New category, please.

Combine...

...fact with...

...fairy tale.

Now...

...ask him again.

How...

...can the Blue Fairy...

...make...

...a robot...

...into a real, live boy?

Come away O human child

To the waters and the wild

With a fairy hand in hand

For the world's more full of weeping

Than you can understand

Your quest will be perilous,

yet the reward is beyond price.

In his book,

How Can a Robot Become Human?...

...Professor Allen Hobby writes of

that which transforms Mecha into Orga.

How do I find her?

Discovery is quite possible.

Our Blue Fairy does exist in

one place and in one place only.

At the end of the world

where the lions weep.

Here is the place dreams are born.

Many a Mecha has gone to the end

of the world, never to come back.

That is why they call

the end of the world "Man-hattan."

And that's why we must go there.

Wait!

What if the Blue Fairy

isn't real at all?

What if she's magic?

The supernatural unites the universe.

Only Orga believe what cannot be seen.

It's what separates our species.

What if she's

an electronic parasite...

...that haunts

artificial intelligence?

They hate us, you know. The humans.

They'll stop at nothing.

My mommy doesn't hate me.

Because I'm special and unique!

Because there's never been anyone

like me before, ever.

When I am real...

...Mommy will read to me

and tuck me in my bed...

...and listen to me

and cuddle with me...

...and tell me every day 100 times

that she loves me!

She loves what you do for her...

...as my customers love

what it is I do for them.

But she does not love you, David.

She cannot love you.

You are neither flesh nor blood. You

are not a dog or a cat or a canary.

You were designed and built specific

like the rest of us.

You are alone now

because they tired of you...

...or replaced you...

...or were displeased with

something you said or broke.

They made us too smart,

too quick and too many.

We suffer for their mistakes

because when the end comes...

...all that will be left is us!

That's why they hate us.

And that's why you must stay here.

With me.

Goodbye, Joe.

Stay back. Stay back.

Let's clear this doorway, please.

You're in bad trouble.

Go about your business now.

Let's go. Move it.

Be careful, David. This is not a toy.

-Destination?

-Man-hattan.

Mecha-restricted area.

-Man-hattan.

-Destination achieved.

The lost city in the sea

at the end of the world.

"Where the lions weep. "

Turn around, Joe.

We're not gonna give up yet.

Turn around.

Turn all the way around.

Professor Hobby?

Professor Hobby?

Come away O human child

To the waters and the wild

With a fairy hand in hand

For the world's more full of weeping

Than you can understand

Professor Hobby?

Professor Hobby?

Hello?

Hello!

Is this the place they make you real?

This is the place they make you read.

Are you real?

I guess.

Are you me?

-I'm David.

-You're not!

Yes, I am. I'm David.

So am I.

Hello, David.

Can you read?

Can you sit down

and we can read together?

Let's be friends.

You can't have her.

I can't hear you.

She's mine. And I'm the only one.

I'm David! I'm David! I'm David!

I'm special! I'm unique! I'm David!

You can't have her!

Yes, you are David.

Professor Hobby?

Yes, David.

I've been waiting for you.

Dr. Know told me you'd be here.

Is Blue Fairy here too?

I first heard of your Blue Fairy

from Monica.

-What could the Blue Fairy do for you?

-Make me a real boy.

But you are a real boy.

As real as I've ever made,

which would make me your Blue Fairy.

You're not her. Dr. Know said she'd

be at the lost city in the sea--

That's what Dr. Know needed to know

to get you to come home to us.

And it's the only time we intervened.

The only help that we gave him...

...to give to you...

...so you could find

your way home to us.

Until you, robots didn't dream...

...robots didn't desire

unless we told them what to want.

Do you have any idea

what a success story you've become?

You found a fairy tale, and inspired

by love, fueled by desire...

...you set out to make her real.

Most remarkable of all, no one taught

you how! We lost you for a while.

When you were found,

we had a simple test.

Where would your self-motivated

reasoning take you?

To conclude that Blue Fairy...

...is a human flaw, to wish

for things that don't exist...

...or to the greatest human gift...

...the ability

to chase down our dreams?

And that is something no machine

has ever done until you.

I thought I was one of a kind.

My son was one of a kind.

You are the first of a kind.

My brain is falling out.

Would you like to meet

your real mothers and fathers?

The team is anxious to talk to you.

I want you to wait here.

I'll gather them up.

We want to hear everything

about your adventures.

We want to thank you...

...and tell you

what's in store for you next.

Mommy.

I saw it, Joe. I saw it.

The place where she lives.

She's down there.

-She is?

-She's waiting for me. We have to go!

When you become a real boy, remember

me to the ladies when you grow up.

-Goodbye, Joe.

-Goodbye, David.

I am.

I was!

David, please be careful.

-The Blue Fairy's all right.

-What happened?

-I don't know.

-We are in a cage.

Blue Fairy?

Please.

Please, please, make me

into a real, live boy.

Please.

Blue Fairy?

Please.

Please...

...make me real.

Blue Fairy, please.

Please make me real.

Please make me a real boy.

Please, Blue Fairy.

Make me into a real boy.

Please....

And David continued to pray

to the Blue Fairy...

...she who smiled softly forever.

She who welcomed forever.

Eventually, the floodlights died...

...but David could still see her,

palely, by day.

And he still addressed her, in hope.

He prayed until all the sea anemones

had shriveled and died...

...as the ocean froze...

...and the ice encased the amphibicopter

and the Blue Fairy...

...locking them together

where he could see her...

...a blue ghost in ice.

Always there.

Always smiling.

Always awaiting him.

Eventually, he never moved at all...

...but his eyes always stayed open...

...staring ahead forever all through

the darkness of each night...

...and the next day...

...and the next day....

Thus, 2000 years passed by.

Teddy, we're home.

Mommy?

Mommy!

We're home!

Where are you?

David!

David!

You have been searching for me,

haven't you?

For my whole life.

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