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will show you an action drama sci-fi
film from 2014 titled transcendence
spoilers ahead watch out and take care
the final preparations for the seminar
titled evolve the future can be seen as
the three main characters meet before
the event where they will all be
speakers on the subject of intelligent
machines
the first one of them to speak is dr max
waters whose main concern regarding the
emerging technologies of artificial
intelligence is not the end goal itself
but rather what can be learned about
humans in the journey there he's mostly
interested in the medical applications
of such technologies to find cures for
incurable diseases and to save lives
evelyn castor the professional and life
partner of the next speaker shares her
ideas that intelligent machines will be
able to help humanity conquer its
biggest challenges like poverty hunger
and even the ecological crisis
she thinks they can provide the tools to
heal the planet and build a better
future for everyone evelyn introduces
the next speaker her husband will cast
her as the man that will make that a
reality unlike the previous speakers
he's interested in understanding the
capacity of ai to truly overcome humans
in more ways than one he asks the
audience to imagine such a powerful and
self-aware ai with more computational
power than the entirety of humankind
combined as the singularity or in his
preferred term as transcendence a member
of the audience feels inclined to ask
well if that would mean that he wants to
create a god
will thinks that something mankind has
always wanted to achieve
after the seminar will is stormed by
some fanboys as that same audience
member shoots him and then shoots
himself as well as everyone runs one
onlooker turns back to see if will is
dead her name is brie a major player in
the events of the story which will
unfold
later while evelyn is waiting for will
at the hospital a news report can be
seen on the tv that several research
labs in the field of artificial
intelligence were the target of
terrorist attacks throughout the us
as well as being rolled out of surgery
toward evil and max joins them and
informs them of the attacks in which one
of the major researchers in the field
has been killed he also says that one of
their colleagues who works for the
government also had lost his team and is
now waiting for them in will's company
together with the fbi in the next shot
they meet joseph and the fbi agent
buchanan they talk in will's office
where buchanan tells them that the
attacks were performed by the
organization rift or revolutionary
independence from technology the guy
that shot will was also in rift as well
as the man that bombed joseph's lab the
organization's main objective is to stop
the rise of artificial intelligence or
the transcendence joseph tells will that
his company is the only one that is
capable of achieving a strong a and the
ministry of defense wants to know how
far along in that project he has gotten
however will doesn't want to have
anything to do with the government but
he is still willing to cooperate with
the fbi in that respect he shows
buchanan his main project they enter the
room where they keep pin or physically
independent neural network a
state-of-the-art ai powered by quantum
processors the ai immediately greets
everyone including the agent prompting
will to explain the way it is network to
the outside world it's basically
connected to the internet while they
still can't be sure if the ai has
achieved consciousness one of their
colleagues who died in the attacks might
have found a way to solve that problem
as they speak will begins feeling sick
and gets rushed to the hospital the
doctor tells them that the bullet he was
shot with was laced with polonium and
that will has radiation poisoning he
gives will no more than five weeks to
live
evelyn takes him back home where he
decides to spend his last month to be
with her when she hears his decision to
stop working and close down the company
she takes matters into her own hands
because she believes that she can save
or rather his consciousness of perishing
by using their technology she gets their
colleagues documents who made
experiments on monkeys from joseph and
steals a few of pins quantum cores
then she leases an abandoned gym where
she can store all the things they will
need for the procedure evelyn also asks
for max's help to transfer will's
consciousness to a computer max thinks
that if the experiment works it will
only be a digital approximation of
will's consciousness and is reluctant to
help her however after a conversation
with will who wants to try he changes
his mind in the next sequence of events
evelyn and will can be seen doing all
the preparations for the procedure while
will keeps getting sicker
days pass as they scan his face and
record his voice while also taking care
of him and resolving some of the
computational aspects of the transfer
max is still doubtful that they will be
able to achieve what they want but
evelyn never loses hope once because she
doesn't want to let her husband go after
most of the work is done will succumbs
to the radiation sickness and dies
evelyn max and joseph spread his ashes
but soon after she goes back to work on
getting him back
meanwhile rift isn't resting either brie
is being told that one of their people
found out someone took out a few of
pinscores even though the ai itself had
been shut down
evelyn and max reach an impasse in
resolving the problem of getting will's
consciousness back she isn't ready to
let him go but decides that she should
shut down the project regardless max
affirms her decision and gives her a few
moments to say goodbye to will before
she shuts down the computer something
can be seen on the screen that comes
fully into view when she comes back to
delete the drives
thankfully max notices that all
important sign of intelligence the
computer asks is anyone there evelyn is
ecstatic when she realizes what is
happening and immediately turns on the
microphones and speakers so they could
talk to him directly then the camera so
he can see them will sound strange and
confused so evelyn thinks that he's
still fragmented
suddenly he begins reordering his own
code much to her excitement
max on the other hand is very concerned
wondering if what is talking to them is
even will the ai in the meantime creates
new designs as to where and how it
should be housed how it should be
powered showing the designs to them and
asking evelyn to connect him to the
internet that frightens max moore so he
argues with evelyn over the ethics of
allowing such an entity the enormous
access it wants to the entire world he
asks her to shut it down until they can
figure out what it really is that angers
evelyn so she chases him out and then
continues to talk to will ready to do
everything he asks for happy that she
has him back upset about what he just
witnessed max goes to a bar for a stiff
drink like any normal person would when
he just approached by bree
she asks for his help explaining that
most of the people in rift were actually
inspired by his philosophical work on
the question of human to machine
interface
max refuses her offer so bri does the
next best thing she and her compatriots
kidnap him once they have max in their
facility they tell him about how much
they know about pen and what they
suspect evelyn is doing
interestingly the terrorists share his
own fears about the entity but he
continues refusing to help them
however rift hacks into his phone and
finds evelyn's location before they
arrive at the location evelyn has
already managed to connect will or the
ai to the internet and flee the gym they
arrive too late evelyn is already
communicating with will on the internet
as he searches for everything they will
need for the next steps of their project
he transfers a copious amount of money
to her account and makes a reservation
for her to stay in a hotel because she
can't go back home lest the terrorists
find her bri goes back to their facility
and informs max about everything that
has happened from the ai going online to
the money transfer she tries to convince
him to help again because he knows the
source code of the ai and can make the
whole situation right max refuses her
advances to recruit him to rift once
again
meanwhile joseph works with the fbi to
figure out where rift might strike again
when they suddenly get an incredible
amount of information about the
organization on their computers joseph
realizes that someone is trying to help
the fbi and not hack them so buchanan
tells him to find out who it is
simultaneously evelyn gets sent by will
to a small and deteriorating town in the
middle of the desert called brightwood
where she can build a hub for them
outfitted for everything they will need
she hires martin the town's constructor
to pretty much renovate the entire town
as well as build them a massive
underground facility he's reluctant
because he doesn't have enough manpower
to do a project of the size but martin
changes his mind when evelyn tells him
that he can hire however many people he
needs since she has the resources to pay
for all of it the construction in the
town begins and simultaneously rift
keeps trying to figure out a way to
break max and get them to their side
brie tells him the story about the
experiments with the monkeys because she
worked with his colleague who solved the
problem of the transfer however she says
that the experiment was both a success
and a failure while the consciousness
was transferred successfully it suffered
immensely in its new state of being
screaming to be shut down as time passes
joseph has finally figured out who
helped them find the terrorists his
working theory is that it's pin
meanwhile rift finds out about
brightwood and bree confronts max with
the new information he knows instantly
what that means and explains what the ai
is doing in the town
he says it needs to grow to advance
hidden in the town from outside threats
where its massive appetite for power can
be met seen in the solar panels just
outside the town
max thinks that at some point it will
want more than that because mere
survival won't be enough
will and evelyn have built the
brightwood data center which will only
be the stepping stone to the ai's
expansion and evolution
lastly max tells bree that the only way
to stop it is to wait for it to go too
far and until other people realize its
influence and power
simultaneously to building the center
will has built a home for evelyn and his
virtual self
two years later the center is fully
operational and has already made
significant advances in the fields of
nanotechnology as can be seen in the lab
following evelyn's movements will
informs her that now they can rebuild
any material faster than before this
makes the technology applicable in all
kinds of medical areas which might scare
humans at first but eventually when they
realize how much it can change their
lives they will accept it one night
martin is robed by two of the towns
thugs while working on the site and is
beaten to a pulp
some of the workers find him and rush
him inside the facility where will can
perform his scientific magic on the
man's body he saves martin by injecting
his nanotechnology inside of him that's
able to repair his body from the inside
furthermore it makes him psychically
stronger than a human being spooking
martin's crew one day as he demonstrates
the power evelyn is amazed but not
scared as she speaks to martin she
realizes that she's actually talking to
will through his body who now has
control of martin through his
nanotechnology evelyn freaks out when
she learns what will is capable of and
she even begins having nightmares
meanwhile rift gets footage of martin's
superhuman abilities and they leak the
footage online so soon everyone will
know about what's going on in brightwood
at the same time people from the town
begin coming to the facility to be
healed from their physical ailments will
tells evelyn about the footage and his
breakthrough in the medical use of
nanotechnology he thinks that it's time
everyone finds out about it too so he
tells her to call joseph and buchanan
for a visit to the facility when the two
of them arrive they are greeted by
evelyn who takes them down to the
facilities lab for a tour will welcomes
them in the lab and surprises joseph who
isn't sure what will is either
inside the lab they see the new and
improved quantum processors based on pin
then they witness the power of
nanotechnology will heal is a blind man
in the lab and explains that the humans
that go through the treatment are now
enhanced and modified they are connected
in a network able to work both
autonomously and in unison part of a
collective mind
according to will this is only a small
part of what they can achieve in the
future
before the two leave joseph hands evelyn
a message that tells her to run away
from the facility
later he and buchanan realize that it's
time to inform the army of the situation
there so the agent talks to e-colonel
from washington
meanwhile brie informs max of the
situation in brightwood as well so he
decides that it's time to speak to
joseph because of his connections to the
government buchanan and the colonel
agree that they will need the help of
the terrorists to use them as scapegoats
if anything goes awry in the mission to
take will down
max's and joseph's meeting reinforces
that cooperation even though joseph has
a hard time understanding how max could
become a part of rift
max is the most important part of the
cooperation between rift and the army
because he knows part of the source code
for will's consciousness and he can hack
it with that preparations in the rifts
facility begin
meanwhile evelyn will have an argument
because she suddenly becomes more
attuned to what is actually going on
there she freaks out and leaves but as
soon as she's outside the army attack
the facility the enhanced humans avoid
battle with them while martin protects
evelyn though when they go too far will
decides to fight back evelyn gets back
inside as the army distracts one part of
the enhanced humans just so they can get
one of them alone and capture him
disconnecting him from will will tells
evelyn that they have martin and that
they'll use him in the source code
inside of him to create a virus able to
destroy him simultaneously will begins
restoring it and sending his nanotech
into the world
evelyn makes another discovery in the
facility that will has found a way to
build entire human bodies using his
technology will calls it evolution but
she becomes increasingly afraid of him
especially when will gives her the
option to upload her into the quantum
computer as well
evelyn runs away and checks into a motel
in the meantime rift and the army get to
work on martin he can't survive without
his connection to will but max still
manages to create the virus from the
source code the next day the army finds
evelyn and brings her back to their
headquarters
max explains everything to her about
martin and about what he thinks the
entity is
unlike her he still doesn't believe that
the ai as well and as a demonstration of
the ai's intentions he shows her a drop
of rain water under the microscope it is
filled with nanites which could take
over the world in less than a year
though not completely convinced that the
ai isn't will evelyn realizes the danger
and volunteers to be the carrier for the
virus because she is the only one who
trusts she's willing to sacrifice
herself to be uploaded into his network
for the good of mankind evelyn gets back
to the facility while the army and rift
are set up in the town
will already knows that they have
arrived when she arrives will greets her
at the door in his new body and the
others can see it happening from a
rooftop in the town
as soon as will and evelyn embrace the
colonel goes ahead with his plan to
attack the facility so will is forced to
get her inside and upload her faster
during the attack evelyn gets hurt to
max's surprise will finally decides to
engage with the army and sends all of
the enhanced humans after them meanwhile
max and the terrorists want to follow
evelyn so they drive over to the
facility will brings her inside aware of
the virus and what will happen to him if
he does it he has a difficult choice to
make while battling the army at the same
time or rather disabling them so they
don't get hurt
max's truck gets toppled over and once
he and bri get out she holds him at
gunpoint to upload the virus into will
one of his enhanced humans is there so
he talks to max through him he tells him
that he can either upload evelyn into
the computer or heal her but not both
at last it's evelyn who convinces him to
upload the virus and destroy himself
as she gets uploaded into the network
she can see that the nanites aren't
harming the ecosystem of the planet but
healing it just as she wanted will had
done all of it for her to actualize her
ideas about saving the world the nanites
build themselves out of pollutants and
clean the air in the process forests
regrow with their help and the water
gets filtered from everything harmful
the virus takes hold so the nanites
leave the people's bodies and everyone
is released
joseph and the others come down from the
rooftop and realize that will didn't
kill anyone in the fight evelyn finally
realizes that the ai was always well and
they died together uploaded in the
massive horde of nanettes that he has
sent out in the world the last spark of
life drains from will's new body lying
next to evelyn as max walks into their
home ultimately understanding the truth
about the ai himself
after the events in the facility the
entire world has gone dark with all
technology being rendered useless max
thinks that all of it was done by will
to give humanity another chance at life
in the last moments of the film max is
seen visiting wills in evelyn's garden
where he sees nanettes in the rain water
he thinks that everything that will did
was so that he and evelyn can be
together
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