What is this?
Well, I want us to start off on a good foot.
$10 million? Why'd you did this?
It's so much money.
I can't-- It-it's too much money.
In relationship to what you've had, it's a lot.
In the larger scheme of things, it's nothing.
No, but I haven't earned any of this money.
Carol is a character who really wants to do good things,
and she finally gets her chance,
um, unwittingly, to save the world.
At her core she's a really good person
who's trying to be even better.
She went on to become a big shot at Yahoo.
So, Carol, tell us, what have you been up to?
Last few years I've been working
with quite a few different non-profit groups.
Nothing really came out of it, but made a lot of great friends.
She gave up her job because she thought
maybe I can do something that puts more good into the world
and is doing all of the things you should do
but really isn't moving the needle.
And I think she's got some regrets
about her love life
and feels that she may have made mistakes
but doesn't know how to rectify them.
She doesn't know how to move forward,
and so she's just in this kind of rut.
I'm looking at you right now,
and you're literally the most average person on earth.
And then she discovers one day
that there's a Super Intelligence
that has proposed to her
that the only way that he will not destroy the world
is if she can prove to this Super Intelligence
that there's still hope in the world.
And I love that she is the one that's picked.
She's earnest enough to walk away from money and a career
just to try to make things better.
If someone was being watched
to see if the world's worth living,
that's a pretty good person for it.
Why did you leave your career eight years ago?
I just thought maybe I could put a little good in the world,
do something that counted, that helped people.
She has a good thing going with a guy named George.
Like many of us, she puts it on the back burner
because she feels like there are things she needs
to accomplish first before she can progress.
Here we go.
That's a good looking hunk of man.
-Yeah. -They had a good thing,
and she kind of over thought it a bit
and didn't feel like she was in the right place.
That happens so much in relationships.
Why did you break up?
I mean, I've read all the emails and texts during the split.
Very sad.
It's my fault. He didn't do anything.
These two characters, of George and Carol,
you see and feel that they had this great love,
and it's probably still there,
and it just got messed up a little.
So the AI, what it decides to do,
is it really wants to see what would happen
if she got back together with George,
because that would be a really interesting thing
for it to get to study.
Observing your reconciliation with George
would help me achieve deeper levels of human understanding.
It's looking at her for three days
and it basically wants to give her all of these things
to see if it helps her get back with George.
And, to the Super Intelligence's mind, it does.
Did you steal this car?
You bought it, it's in your name.
I bought it? What?
You own a really cool car.
Unfortunately, you still dress like a woman
who works at a bird rescue.
The SI can only reflect what it's learned from people,
that's it.
So it's looking on social media, which is terrifying,
it's looking at all these different devices for
what is important to people.
Oh my, you really do need our help.
Desperately.
He dresses Carol in more expensive clothing,
gives her this expensive car thinking, "Now you're happy".
Your body.
I'm just getting a little bit panicky
'cause I can't access my own hands.
Well I think the Super Intelligence would think that
money would by happiness because
if you observed human life for but a moment,
I think that's quite a popular feeling amongst people.
I don't think it's true.
This is your new house.
Oh my god! Did you buy me a house here?
If you consider a Penthouse a house, then yes.
I do.
I think it's a fact that money will not make you happy,
but it will pay for the search. My dad used to say,
"Money won't make you happy, but it'll allow you to
pull up along side happiness in a really big yacht".
(chuckles)
When did you do all of this?
Today.
I will say this about you humans,
with enough motivation and money,
you can do just about anything in a couple of hours.
What it needs to learn,
and what she can teach the Super Intelligence is
I look different than I used to look,
I seem to be a little bit more successful than I used to be,
that's not why George wants me back in his life.
He wants me back in his life because I make him laugh
and because I'm a fun person to be around
and because we have a bond that is incredibly hard to describe.
I don't need any of this.
But won't the apartment and the money and the clothes
make you more attractive to George?
No, the George I remember... he doesn't care about
fancy apartments or expensive shoes.
I don't quite understand.
It is a reminder. We need to stay tethered
to our humanity and advances are great, but so are people.
And let's not, like, sell one out for the other.
Pick up your phone, Carol. (cell phone chimes)
Leave me alone!
One thousand dollars to pick up your phone, Carol.
(cell phone chimes)