Artificial Intelligence: AI Page #6

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And what, after all this time,

have you come to ask me?

-I have a wish to make.

-And what is your wish?

Please make me a real boy...

...so my mommy will love me

and let me stay with her.

David, I will do anything

that is possible...

...but I cannot make you a real boy.

Where am I?

This looks like my house,

but it is different.

Yes, it is different.

But it's also your home.

We read your mind and it's all here.

There's nothing too small that

you didn't store for us to remember.

We so want you to be happy.

You are so important to us, David.

You are unique in all the world.

Will Mommy be coming home soon?

Is she out shopping with Martin now?

David, she can never come home...

...because 2000 years have passed...

...and she is no longer living.

Dearest David,

when you are lonely...

...we can bring back other people

from your time in the past.

If you can bring back other people...

...why can't you bring back her?!

We can only bring back people

whose bodies we dig up from the ice.

We need some physical sample

of the person...

...like a bone or a fingernail.

David.

Yes, Teddy?

Do you remember when you cut

some of Mommy's hair?

Henry shook me.

And you dropped her hair?

I know.

Now you can bring her back...

...can't you?

Give him what he wants.

Dearest David,

your wish is my command.

Hey, Joe, what do you know?

I often felt a sort

of envy of humans...

...of that thing they called spirit.

Humans created a million explanations

of the meaning of life...

...in art, poetry,

mathematical formulas.

Certainly they must be the key

to the meaning of existence.

But human beings no longer existed.

So we began a project...

...that would make it possible

to re-create a person, long dead...

...from the DNA in a fragment

of bone or mummified skin.

We also wondered,

would it be possible...

...to retrieve a memory trace

in resonance with a re-created body?

And you know what we found?

We found the very fabric

of space-time itself...

...stored information

about every event...

...which had ever occurred

in the past.

But the experiment was a failure.

Those who were resurrected only lived

through one day of renewed life.

When they fell asleep on the night

of their first new day...

...they died again.

When they became unconscious,

their very existence...

...faded away into darkness.

So you see,

the equations had shown...

...that once an individual space-time

pathway had been used...

...it could not be reused.

If we bring your mother back now...

...it will only be for one day...

...and then you will

never see her again.

Maybe....

Maybe she will be special.

Maybe she will stay.

I thought this would be hard

for you to understand.

You were created to be so young.

Maybe the one day will be like

that day inside the amphibicopter.

Maybe it will last forever.

David, you are the enduring memory...

...of the human race.

The most lasting proof

of their genius.

We only want for your happiness.

David...

...you've had so little of that.

If you want for my happiness...

...then you know what you have to do.

Listen.

Can you hear that?

The new morning has come.

Go to her, David.

She's just waking up this instant.

I found you.

I must have dozed off.

-How long--?

-Would you like some coffee?

Just the way you like it?

Yeah, I'd love a coffee.

It'll wake me up.

You never forget how, do you?

No.

I never forget.

I must be a little confused.

What day is it?

It is...today.

As the day wore on, David thought

it was the happiest day of his life.

All the problems seemed to have

disappeared from his mommy's mind.

There was no Henry,

there was no Martin.

There was no grief.

There was only David.

David was told

not to explain anything...

...or she'd be frightened

and everything would be spoiled.

But David's journey home

belonged to him.

So he didn't see the harm of painting

things she'd have no memory of.

David had never had a birthday

because he'd never been born.

So they baked a cake

and lit candles.

-Now make a wish.

-It came true already.

By now, the windows

were beginning to dim.

David drew the shades without

even needing to be asked.

I really ought to be tucking you in.

How strange.

How fascinating.

I can hardly keep my eyes open.

I don't know what's come over me.

Such a beautiful day.

I love you, David.

I do love you.

I have always loved you.

That was the everlasting moment

he had been waiting for.

And the moment had passed,

for Monica was sound asleep.

More than merely asleep.

Should he shake her,

she would never rouse.

So David went to sleep too.

And for the first time in his life...

...he went to that place...

... where dreams are born.

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