(light music)
(waves crashing)
(light music)
(light chattering)
- Carved her daughter.
Who she named Andromeda
And she smiled.
For in the ocean she had come home.
As reward Goddess Athena appeared
and plucked in drama from the sea
and placed to her among the stars, become a constellation
alongside her mother to forever like the night sky.
The end.
- That is my favorite story.
Will you read it again?
- Maybe not Now.
- Are we going to play a game?
- Hmm, close your eyes and hold us your hand.
Both eyes closed?
- [Andromeda] Yes.
- [Child] Guess what it is?
- Copper, lightweight, embossed.
- Okay, now open them.
- It's beautiful.
- No silly.
It's a present for you.
- A present?
- It's a heart like in the story.
There she is
and there's the sea monster she kills.
- But in the story, she's a prisoner to the sea monster.
- She breaks free and kills the sea monster
and the sea monster is gone.
- I see.
- Do you like your present?
- Yes, very much.
Thank you.
- Put it on.
Now you have a heart like me, you can be human,
but I'm still a year older than you.
- You might be a year older, but you still have a bedtime.
- Aww.
- [Child] Andromeda?
- Yes?
- Promise me one thing.
One day, you'll be real, you'll be alive.
(sad emotional music)
(phone buzzing)
(Mason groans) (phone button beeping)
- Okay.
- Hey, thanks for the ride.
- It's not often I get a transport call
at two in the morning.
- Yeah, I bet.
(banging)
Was that something in the back?
- It's just some old equipment.
Hey, so you're from tech, right?
- Yeah, yeah, research and development.
- Oh, what could be so urgent to R&D this time of night?
Oh, come on man, you gonna make me drive 14 hours
and not tell me something?
- Okay, well we actually located an Andromeda unit that,
well let's just say we found some unusual readings.
- What unusual readings?
Come on, tell me.
- Her empathy settings are off the scale.
Normal Andromeda units
have a naturally high empathy setting anyways
to work as nannies, nurses,
domestic workers, right?
- Right, yeah.
- But I mean her test results actually showed
learned emotional behavior
beyond her programming,
beyond what we even thought was possible.
- And who would want that?
A human AI?
- [Passenger] Well, I mean, this is,
this is a major scientific breakthrough.
- Yeah, look,
I've been scouting Andromeda units for 15 years
and I have seen it all before
but a real life human android it does not exist.
Look, what I want to know is
what is your science doing for actual humans?
- I don't know what you mean.
- You don't know what I mean?
- I mean I work with androids.
- You (driver laughs).
Okay, let me spell it out for you, smart guy.
People like my dad, you know, his generation,
hard workers, came from nothing,
and then they all got hit by this AI boom
and then they were out on the street homeless, dead.
What's your science doing for them, huh?
I thought so.
Androids for the rich
but you don't give a fuck about the little people.
You don't give a fuck about the little people.
Do you really think a machine can be alive?
(ominous music)
Do you think a machine should be alive?
(ominous music)
My dad always said this world is man versus machine.
Pick a side.
(ominous music)
(driver laughs)
(mysterious music)
(gentle music)
(ominous music)
(banging on window)
(ominous music)
- Hello.
I don't believe we've met.
- We have, just different versions of you.
(Andromeda screaming)
(Andromeda gurgling)
But inside the same, all of 'em.
- Mason!
Mason!
The android in the back of the van,
I'm gonna have to-
- Who's side are you on? - What the fuck, man?
(ominous music)
- [Mason] Someone took good care of you.
Not a scratch.
Though they don't give a fuck about you now.
(Mason laughs)
- Please, I want to live.
- Shut the fuck up!
(dramatic music)
- [Andromeda] But in the story,
she's a prisoner to the sea monster.
- She breaks free and kills the sea monster
and the sea monster is gone.
- I see.
(mysterious music)
(sad music)
- [Girl] Andromeda?
- [Andromeda] Yes?
- [Girl] Promise me one thing,
one day, you'll be real,
you'll be alive.
- I promise.
(sad music)